SUBMIT IMAGE: Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHe alth Group president Brian Thompson, shows up in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism costs in New York City, UNITED STATE, February 21, 2025.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday claimed she had actually gotten government district attorneys to look for the capital punishment versus Luigi Mangione, that is billed with killing UnitedHealthcare CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Brian Thompson in New York City in December.
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,” Bondi claimed in a statement released by the Department of Justice.
“After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again,” the attorney general of the United States claimed.
Karen Agnifilo, Mangione’s legal representative, condemned Bondi’s choice.
“By seeking to murder Luigi Mangione, the Justice Department has moved from the dysfunctional to the barbaric,” Agnifilo claimed in a declaration.
“Their decision to execute Luigi is political and goes against the recommendation of the local federal prosecutors, the law, and historical precedent,” the lawyer claimed.
“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi,” Agnifilo claimed.
“By doing this, they are defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry that continues to terrorize the American people.”
Bondi’s choice came greater than 2 months after President Donald Trump, on his very first day in workplace, authorized an exec order requiring the repair of usage of the government capital punishment. That order routed the attorney general of the United States to “pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.”
The DOJ under the Biden management enforced a halt on government implementations in mid-2021.
In February, UNITED STATE District Judge Katherine Parker designated a lawyer that is a death-penalty professional to Mangione’s lawful group at the demand of the Federal Defenders of New York, an independent company that stands for indigent offenders.
Mangione, 26, is being prosecuted in united state District Court in Manhattan with government criminal offenses, consisting of murder, tracking, and guns costs, pertaining to Thompson’s eliminating outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan onDec 4.
Thompson, whose business is the biggest payer of medical insurance advantages in the United States, was headed right into the resort for a financier conference of its moms and dad, UnitedHe alth Group.
Mangione was nabbed 5 days later on at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where cops located him in ownership of a handgun, a silencer, ammo, phony IDs and a united state key.
Brian Thompson, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of UnitedHe althcare.
Courtesy: UnitedHe alth Group
Mangione, that is being held without bond, has actually not yet gone into an appeal in government instances.
He has actually begged innocent to murder and various other costs in Manhattan Supreme Court, which is a trial-level New York state court. He deals with an optimum feasible sentence of life without parole because instance if founded guilty. New York state does not have the capital punishment.
The DOJ, in its declaration Tuesday, claimed that Thompson’s “murder was an act of political violence.”
“Mangione’s actions involved substantial planning and premeditation and because the murder took place in public with bystanders nearby, may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons,” the declaration claimed.
The division formerly claimed that the University of Pennsylvania graduate prepared to eliminate Thompson to trigger public conversation concerning the healthcare market.
Agnifilo, in her declaration, claimed, “We are prepared to fight these federal charges, brought by a lawless Justice Department, as well as the New York State charges, and the Pennsylvania charges, and anything else they want to pile on Luigi.”
“This is a corrupt web of government dysfunction and one-upmanship. Luigi is caught in a high-stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except the trophy is a young man’s life,” Agnifilo claimed.
Thirteen of the 16 individuals performed by the federal government given that the government capital punishment was renewed in 1988 were performed over the last 7 months of Trump’s very first term in workplace, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The various other 3 implementations were accomplished in 2001 and 2003, throughout President George W. Bush’s very first term.
Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in July 2021 enforced a moratorium on government implementations pending a testimonial of DOJ plans and treatments, consisting of “the risk of pain and suffering associated with the use of pentobarbital,” a substance abuse in dangerous shot implementations.
Former President Joe Biden onDec 23 travelled the death penalty of almost 3 of the 40 individuals in government fatality row.
