Fuck race.
Three idiots killed someone, and for that, they should be executed. You want a deterrent, that's a heck of one!
Dude is dead - Do the killers deserve less jail time if they robbed him because he had a lunch box and they were starving? NO! Would they deserve less jail time/punishment if his shirt was one color and they were in another color gang? NO! Would they deserve less/more jail time if they killed him for wearing Crocs, and they hated Crocs with a passion? NO!
A kill is a kill, and the punishment should be a kill. All this shit about race is stupid.