The US public prosecutor officially informed a court on Thursday that they are planning to apply for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, which is accused of killing an executive of the Unitedhealth Group in New York last year.
The 26 -year -old manion will appear on Friday afternoon before the Federal Court of Manhattan for an indictment. He has not guilty a separate indictment against the state of New York, with which he faces himself compared to the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the Unitedhealth.
When the prosecutors justified their decision, they wrote in their submission that Mangione was “a future danger because he intended to express the intention of declining an entire industry and initiating political and social opposition to this industry by acting on the act of fatal violence.”
The US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi announced at the beginning of this month that the Ministry of Justice would obtain the death penalty for manion. The court report on Thursday by the US public prosecutor’s office in Manhattan formulates the intention of the prosecutors to impose the death penalty.
The lawyers of Mangione said that Bondi’s announcement on April 1st was “unapikely political” and was violated against the government protocols for death penalty.
If mangions are convicted in the federal procedure, the jury would determine in a separate phase of the process whether the death penalty should be recommended. Such a recommendation must be unanimous and the judge would have to impose it.
Andrew Witty, CEO of the Unitedhealth Group, mourned for the murder of the managing director Brian Thompson and said that he understood public frustrations with the “incorrect” US health system on Friday, in a New York Times opinion. It was his first public comment since Thompson, the CEO of the Unitedhealth health insurance, was shot last week.
Thompson was shot in front of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4, where the company gathered for an investor conference. The brazen killing and the following five -day search were fascinated by the Americans.
Police officers in Altoona, Pennsylvania, found manion with a 9 mm gun and a silencer, clothing that corresponds to the clothing carried by Thompson’s protecting material and a notebook that described an intention to “get involved” a CEO of the insurance company, as a court hearing was “involved”.
Some Americans were cheered on mangion, which was not known that she was a customer or customer of Unitedhealth, and said that he had drawn attention to the strong US health costs and the power of the health insurers to refuse payment for some treatments.
Mangione is recorded in Federal Lockup in Brooklyn.
A lot of people, many supporters, flocked to a courthouse in New York City, where Luigi Mangione was not guilty of being accused of murder and terrorism in the first degree in the death of the CEO of Unitedhealthcare, Brian Thompson.
The decision to apply for the death penalty is burdened by a practice that can be seen in the first Donald Trump government when 13 executions were carried out between July 2020 and January 2021.
Previously there had been a 17-year break in the execution of federal inmates, which were not carried out during the presidency of Barack Obama or during the second term of George W. Bush.
Attorney General Merrick Garland In the administration of Joe Biden, a moratorium for federal designs initiated in 2021 until a review of the procedures was checked, although two cases of death penalty were continued with origins before the presidency of bidies.
The Ministry of Justice under Garland refused to pursue the death penalty in other mass murders, including the shooter who was motivated by a hatred of immigrants who killed 23 people in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas in 2019. This shooter, Patrick Crusius, was sentenced to life in prison this week.
