The United States Attorney General Pamela Bondi has ordered federal prosecutors to request the death penalty for Luigi Mangionethe young man who shot and killed last year in the middle of the street Brian ThompsonGeneral Director of the Insurance Division of UnitedHealth Group UNH.Nin New York.
The lawyers of Luigi Mangione They have not yet responded to the announcement of the US attorney general. Pamela Bondi has reported in a statement that he has instructed the capital punishment against Mangione for “a premeditated murder and cold blood that hit the United States”, although the defendant has declared himself innocent of all the charges that are charged to him.
For the Department of Justice, the crime was “an act of political violence,” which also implied a “serious risk of death” for all the people who walked through the Manhattan neighborhood on December 4 when Mangione supposedly opened fire against Thompson, which he had previously harassed.
Bondi has framed this step within the efforts of President Donald Trump to contain crime. Likewise, it connects with the will already expressed by the attorney general itself of lifting the moratorium on the death penalty.
Peculiarity of the ‘Luigi Mangione’ case
The case of Luigi Mangione26, he is peculiar: on the one hand, it could be sentenced to life imprisonment without probation because New York does not contemplate the death penalty for state positions. But, on the other hand, Mangione faces A parallel federal accusation in the Federal Court of Manhattan for the murder of Thompson. It could be sentenced to death in that case. He has not yet been asked to be guilty of federal charges.
In the state of New York, no execution is carried out since Eddie Mays in 1963, although there were prisoners in the death corridor until 2007. If Mangione is declared guilty in the federal case, the jury will determine his conviction.
The alleged murderer is accused of killing Thompson on December 4 in the heart of Manhattan, after which he starred in a escape of film dyes and, five days later, he was arrested by the police in an McDonald’s of Altoona (Pennsylvania).
The case of Luigi Mangione It generated great interest in the United States, where many consider the young man a hero who faced the private insurers business, to the point where an initiative that brings together funds to pay his defense already raised more than $ 700,000.
