The US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi said on Tuesday that she had instructed the public prosecutor to apply for the death penalty against Luigi Mangione.
It is the first time that the Ministry of Justice tried to raise the death penalty since US President Donald Trump had returned with a vow in January to resume the federal government. Bondi’s decision, this in the top -class case against Mangione, which annoyed a supporter of supporters with the healthcare industry, underlines the commitment of the Attorney General to carry out the president’s initiative for new death penalty.
At the end of his first term, Trump supervised an unprecedented increase in the executions and was a pronounced supporter to expand the investment penalty. Bondi is arranged weeks after it had lifted a moratorium on the federal death penalty, which had been imposed under the administration of former President Joe Biden.
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson’s innocent man and father of two little children-war a intentional, cold-blooded assassination, which shocked America,” said Bondi in a explanation, which Thompson’s murder described as “an act of political violence”.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Manhattan raised four new charges against the alleged CEO killer from Unitedhealthcare, Luigi Mangione, including a number of murder that could bring the death penalty.
Mangione, a 26-year-old graduate of the Ivy League, is accused of having put down Thompson in front of a hotel in Manhattan in December where Unitedhealthcare was supposed to hold an investor conference. Thompson, who was 50 years old and had two children in high school, worked within Unitedhealthcare and his parent company for decades.
Mangione faces a separate murder and state murder system for murder that swallow the economic community while galvanizing critics of health insurance. The federal laws include murder through the use of a firearm that offers the possibility of the death penalty. The state charges have maximum punishment for life in prison. Mangione has not guilty of a state indictment and has not filed a lawsuit against the federal costs.
Not clear whether the order of national cases, state cases can be changed
The prosecutors said that the two cases will proceed on parallel routes, with the state case being brought to court first. It was not immediately clear whether Bondi’s announcement would change the order.
Thompson’s murder alerted the company world, in which some health insurers hastily switched to remote work or online shareholders’ sessions. The case also channeled some frustrations of the Americans with health insurance companies.
Luigi Mangione, the man who is accused of the former US public prosecutor Roland Riopelle breaks out where there is a Mangione case.
Mangione’s writings and words about balls that were recovered from the scene reflected the animus towards health insurers and corporate America, according to the authorities.
The surveillance video showed a masked shooter that shoots Thompson from behind. The police say that the words “delay”, “refuse” and “put” were scribbled on the ammunition and imitate a phrase that was usually used to describe the tactics of the insurers so as not to pay any claims.
The lawyer of Mangione, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said on Tuesday that when looking for the death penalty, “the Ministry of Justice had passed from dysfunction to a barbaric change”.
Mangione “is in a high Taux game between state and federal prosecutors, except that the trophy is the life of a young man,” said Friedman Agnifilo in a statement to combat all charges against him.
Mangione was arrested after a five -day search in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 370 kilometers west of New York City.
The lawyer of Mangione who try to suppress some evidence
The police said Mangione said a nine millimeter pistol with the objects and other objects used by the shootings, including a fake ID and a notebook described by the authorities as “manifesto”, in which they say that he had expressed hostility to the health insurance industry and the wealthy managers.
Among the entries in the notebook, the public prosecutor’s office from August 2024, in which “the goal is an insurance” because “it checked every box”, and one from October, which describes an intention to “Wack”.
Unitedhealthcare is the largest health insurer in the United States, although the company said that mangion is never a customer.
Friedman-Agnifilo said she would try to suppress some of the evidence that were confiscated during the arrest of mangion. She has also questioned the parallel law enforcement and accused “warfare jurks” of transforming manions into a “human ping pong ball”.
After his arrest, Mangione was whipped down by plane and helicopter to New York and slowly went a Manhattan pier in a highly choreographed spectacle of a lot of officers with assault rifles and a contingent, which included the New York Mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
On January 20, Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office, which forces the Ministry of Justice to apply for the death penalty in national cases. Trump’s administration carried out 13 federal executions in his first term, more than among a president in modern history.
Biden was committed to a promise to work on the abolition of the punishment of the federal capital, but did not take any important steps for this purpose.
While the then general administrator Merrick Garland hired the federal executions in 2021, the Ministry of Justice in many cases fought vigorously in many cases to maintain the prison terms of the death penalty in the occupants.
