No, he didn't. These allegations were just made up and not even part of the court case later. But sure enough, for every story about Ross somebody brings this up as if it's a matter of fact.
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-boss-first-murder-at...
A Wired article and some chat transcripts are hardly proof.
Ross got double life imprisonment and 40 years without possibility of parole for what is effectively building a website. Let that sink in for a moment.
And if people bring up the craziness of this sentencing the standard reply is "but murder for hire". Which he wasn't even charged one.
It's a classic bait and switch.
In a court of law, yes. However we are currently not in a court of law so I don't need to pretend that there's no evidence of the fact that he tried to get multiple people killed even though it never formally made it onto the list of charges. And if you think 'a few chat logs' are the only thing connecting him to the murders, I suggest you familiarise yourself with the actual case. It also included an undercover FBI agent being asked by Ulbricht to kill Curtis Clark Green, which included a fake death and faked torture footage being exchanged with Ulbricht[1]. Green himself corroborated this.
Al Capone was sentenced based on tax evasion, that doesn't mean I need to pretend that the mob didn't also kill people.
[1]http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/7/is-this-the-...