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raeanna - the owners haven't gone on trial yet. One is set for 7/31 and the other hasn't been scheduled yet. They'll get their day in court, and I certainly agree with your sentiment. After all, they were the ones who installed a highly flamable, toxic-fume spewing material in a wood-frame building. ANY fire there could have been deadly, let alone one when it was packed with people. The band manager should have at least asked if the soundproofing was flamable before setting off the fireworks, which he apparently didn't do, according to the story.
I'm going to stick by my earlier statement that anytime you cause 100 people to die because of wreckless and/or negligent acts, you need to serve jail time. If it were my family member killed there, I would certainly expect that to happen and would be very angry at a community service-only sentence. That may be more "useful", but this is about punishment, not usefullness. We send people to jail for stealing money or not paying their parking tickets or get drunk and run their oil tankers aground in Alaska. No one is physically hurt by these actions, yet they all warrant jail time.
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