Archive Photo: Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson, appeared in the Manhattan Supreme Court on February 21, 2025 on New York State murder and terrorism charges in New York City, USA.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has ordered federal prosecutors to sentence death in case against Luigi Mangione UnitedHealthCare New York City CEO Brian Thompson.
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson – an innocent man and father of two young children – was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassin that shocked the United States,” Bundy said at a Bundy. statement Depend on Ministry of Justice.
“After careful consideration, I directed federal prosecutors to seek death penalty in this case because we execute President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crimes and keep the United States safe again,” the attorney general said.
Mangione’s attorney Karen Agnifilo did not immediately comment on Bondi’s statement.
The statement came more than two months after President Donald Trump’s first day of office, and signed an executive order to restore the use of the federal death penalty. The order directs the Attorney General to “sent to death for all serious sexual offences required to be used.”
Since mid-2021, the Justice Department under the Biden administration has suspended federal executions.
In February, U.S. District Judge Katherine Parker appointed a lawyer who was a death toll expert on Mangione’s legal team at the request of the New York Federal Defender, an independent organization representing the impoverished defendants.
Mangione, 26, was committed by federal crimes, including murder, Thompson killed Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on December 4.
Thompson, whose company is the largest health insurance benefit payer in the United States, is heading to the hotel for an investor meeting with his parents, UnitedHealth Group.
Mangione is out of bail, he also faces state murder and other charges Manhattan Supreme CourtThis is a trial-level court. In this case, he will face the maximum possible penalty for life without parole. There is no death penalty in New York State.
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The Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday that Thompson’s “murder is an act of political violence.”
“Mangian’s actions involve substantial planning and premeditation, and since the murder was conducted in public in nearby bystanders, it may pose a serious risk of death to others,” the statement said.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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The department has previously said the University of Pennsylvania graduates plan to kill Thompson to spark public discussion about the health care industry.
According to the federal government’s resumption of the federal death penalty in 1988, 13 of the 16 people executed by the federal government were executed in the last seven months of President Donald Trump’s tenure. Death Penalty Information Center. The other three executions were conducted in 2001 and 2003 during George W. Bush’s first term.
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At the time General Natney Merrick Garland imposed it in July 2021 pause Regarding federal executions, awaits review of Justice Department policies and procedures, including “the risk of pain and suffering associated with pentobarbital use,” a drug used for lethal injection executions.
Former President Joe Biden sentenced to all three of the 40 federal death prisoners on December 23.
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