For the sake of a debate, why wouldn't you? (just sticking to drug kingpin and not including the murder for hire stuff...)
I would not skip that stuff, because that inevitably comes into it.
Murder for hire charges were dismissed.
Because he's already serving consecutive life sentences and the prosecutor sees no state interest in pursuing a conviction when the defendant is already going to spend the rest of his life in jail.
Cool. That doesn't change things one bit; he still tried to have someone killed because he thought they were a threat to his empire. He is no freedom fighter, he is no crusader, he is a common drug dealer.