{"id":29174,"date":"2025-04-02T05:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29174"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:20:59","slug":"us-prosecutors-to-seek-death-penalty-for-luigi-mangione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/04\/02\/us-prosecutors-to-seek-death-penalty-for-luigi-mangione\/","title":{"rendered":"US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December.<\/b><\/p>\n

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek capital punishment for the “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination”.<\/p>\n

Mr Thompson was shot dead outside a hotel in New York on 4 December. Police arrested Mr Mangione, 26, days later in Pennsylvania after a nationwide manhunt.<\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty to state charges, and has yet to enter a plea for separate federal charges. He is awaiting trial in a New York prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the press release, Bondi said Mr Thompson’s murder “was an act of political violence” and that it “may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons” nearby.<\/p>\n

Investigators say Mr Mangione was motivated to kill Mr Thompson, 50, because of anger with US health insurance companies.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for Mr Mangione called the decision “barbaric”, accused the government of “defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry”, and said Mr Mangione was caught in a tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n

“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mr Mangione is facing 11 state criminal counts in New York, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism.<\/p>\n

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