Hours before reading Luigi Mangione charges in a federal court, federal prosecutors presented a formal notice that they intend to seek the death penalty if they are convicted, citing, in part their alleged desire to “cause resistance to the basis of the victim’s industry” by killing the CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson.
Mangione is expected to declare himself innocent when he appears on Friday for his reading of charges in an accusation of four positions that accused him, among other things, with murder through the use of a firearm, an eligible crime for death.
Luigi Mangione appears in the Court for an audience, on February 21, 2025, in New York.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi already pointed out that President Donald’s Trump administration intended to execute Mangione as part of the president’s impulse to restore capital punishment.
The “notice of intention to seek the death penalty” is the formal passage of the government to inform the court and expose the reasons.
Federal prosecutors said that Mangione is worth the death of death due to the “impact of the victim’s death on his family, friends and co -workers.”
They also said: “He expressed the intention of attacking an entire industry and gathering the political and social opposition to that industry, by participating in an act of lethal violence.”
The prosecutors declared that the choice of the site and the victim of Mangione made it clear that it sought to “amplify an ideological message, maximize the visibility and impact of the victim’s murder, and cause broad resistance to the victim’s industry.”
Defensor lawyers have already called the decision to seek the death penalty “barbarian” and a “political trick.”
