The United States Attorney General Pamela Bondi ordered federal prosecutors to look for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of the Insurance Division of the United Group, in New York last year.
In a statement, Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman, Agnifilo, called the decision to seek the death penalty “Bárbara”.
“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the murder of Luigi sponsored and sponsored by the State,” said Friedman Agnifilo.
Mangione, 26, declared himself innocent of the murder positions of the state of New York as an act of terrorism and crimes of weapons. I could face life imprisonment without probation if it is convicted in that case. New York does not have the death penalty for state positions.
Mangione faces a federal accusation parallel in the Federal Court of Manhattan about the murder of Thompson, which is where Bondi said prosecutors will point to the death penalty. He has not yet been asked to present a plea to federal charges.
If Mangione is convicted in the federal case, the jury would determine in a separate phase of the trial if recommending the death penalty. Any recommendation of this type must be unanimous, and the judge would require it to impose it.
Thompson was shot dead on December 4 outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, where the company met for an investor conference.
“The murder of Luigi Mangiones by Brian Thompson, an innocent man and father of two young children, was a premeditated and cold blood murder that shocked the United States,” Bondi said in a statement.
“After a careful consideration, I have ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out the Trump President Trump to stop violent crime and make the United States be safe again,” Bondi said.
The shameless murder of Thompson and the consequent five -day human hunt captivated Americans.
Police officers in Altoona, Pennsylvania, found Mangione on December 9 with a 9 -millimeter gun and silencer, clothes that coincided with the clothes used by the Thompson shooter in surveillance images, and a notebook that describes an “Wack” attempt a CEO of an insurance company, according to a presentation of the court.
While public officials condemned the murder, some Americans have encouraged Mangione, saying that it caught attention to the steep costs of medical care and the power of health insurers to reject the payment of some treatments. He is currently being held in the federal blockade in Brooklyn.
Bondi raised a moratorium on February 5 on federal executions imposed in 2021 for his predecessor Merrick Garland, the attorney general under Democratic President Joe Biden.
