{"id":40747,"date":"2025-04-02T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40747"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:46:16","slug":"trump-doj-to-seek-death-penalty-for-luigi-mangione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/trump-doj-to-seek-death-penalty-for-luigi-mangione\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump DOJ to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City. Mangione is accused of killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson late last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Curtis Means – Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling the death penalty “an intolerably cruel and unusual punishment,” one socialist writer said that the European Union should offer the alleged assassin asylum.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ELOISE GOLDSMITH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apr 01, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced<\/a> Tuesday that she is directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused<\/a> of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal prosecutors in New York City filed murder charges<\/a> against Mangione in mid-December after Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after Thompson was gunned down in front of a hotel in midtown Manhattan on December 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UnitedHealthcare is the largest health insurer in the country, though the company<\/a> has said Mangione was never insured by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grand jury in New York state indicted<\/a> Mangione with first-degree murder “in furtherance of an act of terrorism” and second-degree murder, in addition to other, lesser charges also in mid-December. Mangione pleaded not guilty to those state charges, but has not entered a plea for his federal charges, according<\/a> to PBS News.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson\u2014an innocent man and father of two young children\u2014was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,” Bondi said<\/a> in a statement. “After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President [Donald] Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>, who oversaw a spate<\/a> of executions carried out at an unprecedented rate during the final months of his initial administration, signed<\/a> an executive order on his first day back in the White House that directs the Justice Department to seek out the death penalty in federal cases when possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangione, whose case triggered<\/a> a wave of dark humor and vitriol directed at the for-profit healthcare industry, was compared to “Robin Hood” in a December intelligence report compiled by a regional intelligence center, according<\/a> to The American Prospect.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Substack post published<\/a> Tuesday, the socialist writer Carl Beijer wrote that the European Union (E.U.) must offer asylum to Mangione.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Regardless of the merits of the case for or against Mangione, the death penalty remains an intolerably cruel and unusual punishment,” wrote Beijer. “Given its\u00a0commitment<\/a>\u00a0to using ‘all available instruments’ towards the abolition of capital punishment, the E.U. should publicly condemn the prosecution of Luigi Mangioni; should immediately offer him political asylum in defense of his basic right to life; and should negotiate with the U.S. Department of Justice to secure his release.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ELOISE GOLDSMITH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eloise Goldsmith is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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