The terrorist charges suggest they want to make an example of him: this is what we do to those who mess with the ownership class.
But by doing so, it only highlights how our society, including the justice system is grossly stratified, so the ownership class is protected bit not restrained, and the working class is restrained but not protected.
The public is already looking at Thompson as a single example of an elite deviant (white collar criminal) who has a high body count, and yet isn't even regarded as a criminal, much less is being investigated for all the death he is responsible for.
And he is one instance representing a single company in a single industry that goes without regulation. Then there's cars, guns, opioid addiction, PFOA in the water supply, war profiteers and so on.
(This is why it's weird that Lucifer in his eponymous show is content with helping an LA police officer hunt down petty serial killers instead of the Brian Thompsons of the world. He, of anyone should know where the true evil is β But the writers either do not, or are not allowed to acknowledge elite deviance.)