Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says

[Coventina]

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that she would seek the death penalty of Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in front of a hotel in midtown Manhattan last December.

Ms. Bondi said her decision came after “careful consideration” and was in line with President Trump’s executive order directing the Justice Department to renew use of the death penalty requests after President Biden declared a moratorium on capital punishment for most federal offenders in 2021.

“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, coldblooded assassination that shocked America,” Ms. Bondi said in a statement.

Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, which has been prosecuting Mr. Mangione’s federal case, declined to comment on Tuesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/luigi-mangione-death-penalty.html

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"innocent"?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"shocked"?!?!?! Nope, just shocked it hadn't happened sooner.

Yeah, go ahead and give Luigi the DP. You'll make a martyr.
Good luck with that!!!

[Bonx]

1. The death penalty is appropriate for first-degree murder

[Coventina]

3. I am always and forever against the DP.

Which is in line with the majority of the world's countries including:

Portugal
Denmark
Luxembourg
Norway
France
Netherlands
Australia
New Zealand
Germany
Ireland
Switzerland
Italy
Spain
Belgium
Poland
UK
Ukraine
Mexico
and literally dozens more that I haven't listed......

[Disaffected]

5. I'm not sure those who have been wrongly convicted

would agree.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. abolish the death penalty

[flvegan]

16. The death penalty is revenge, not punishment.

Punishment is what we should be after. Not revenge.

[Ocelot II]

19. The death penalty isn't appropriate for anything, ever.

It's barbaric.

[Ocelot II]

21. Not me. I always thought killing Thompson was absolutely wrong

and I said so; and I think killing his killer would also be wrong. State-sanctioned murder is no more excusable than criminal murder.

[edhopper]

24. No it's not

Unless you are okay with innocent people being put to death.
Which has happened and will continue to happen.

[Kingofalldems]

25. How about murdering school children?

[WarGamer]

30. agreed... some things justify it.

[lastlib]

40. The state should NOT have the power to take life.

Period.

My POV.

[Gore1FL]

45. I submit it is inappropriate in all cases. nt

[Turbineguy]

2. That should make Brian Thompson feel good.

[Bonx]

6. He was murdered. He's feeling nothing.

Although he probably did feel agony when shot in the back on the street, gasping for life as it left his body, knowing he was leaving this world and his wife and kids behind.

[Blue Full Moon]

9. He caused deaths and ruined people's lives.

[WarGamer]

33. Just like the CEO of just about ANY Corporation right?

Name a major corporation that hasn't been responsible for death by your definition.

[Blue Full Moon]

35. They profile as serial killers

Then there are cases like this.
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/colombian-union-suing-coca-cola-in-death-squad-case/

[ForgedCrank]

38. Even if

one subscribes to that way of thinking, assassinating humans based on our own individual deductions is a sub-human and unjust, not to mention evil.

[unblock]

4. Hmm, looks like any first degree murder is potentially subject to the death penalty under federal law

near as I can figure. That said, there's usually an aggravating factor which really isn't present in this case. It made news because the victim was a ceo of a big company, but really, that's it.

Basically, they're just pandering to their core constituency, that famously oppressed and marginalized group: sociopathic billionaires and CEOs.

[Buckeyeblue]

8. I thought this was being prosecuted at the state level?

[sop]

10. Luigi is facing 11 state charges in NY, including 1st-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism.

If convicted of all the state criminal charges in New York he would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Mangione is also facing federal charges for using a firearm to commit murder and interstate stalking resulting in death. These federal charges make him eligible for the death penalty. Good luck finding a jury, Pam.

[Emile]

11. New York does not have the death penalty.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. It does for certain federal crimes.

[H2O Man]

39. The state doesn't.

Federal charges are distinct.

[doubleplusgood]

12. But, what if it turns out Thompson was "woke"?

Could be Luigi's only hope to avoid the DP.

[Ping Tung]

13. Making America Bloodthirsty Again

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[yardwork]

15. That's an epitaph for the United States.

We meddled in so many places and always felt so superior. Well, the horrors we enabled across the globe are here now.

[harumph]

27. Basically means you have a right to self defense...but just don't lose your shit.

But where is the line between legitimate defensive action and actions always prohibited?
Much ink has been spilled over that. War is never symmetrical.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

32. no "again" about it -- always has been

[Emile]

17. I know a guy who shot and killed his wife

for having an affair. He was out of prison 20 years later.

[Jim__]

18. The jury has to unanimously agree to the imposition of the death penalty.

That should be hard to get in NYC.

[WarGamer]

31. If the Jury pool walks the streets you might be surprised.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. So, why help Putin, Pam?

Putin premeditatedly tosses people from high-rise balconies, pops polonium into their pants, and placed a patently moronic pinheaded traitor in the Oval Office.

[alarimer]

23. Only because he killed a CEO

It should not even be a federal case.

But this grandstanding bullshit is only because the victim was rich and important. And white. This sort of political bullshit is yet another reason to abolish the death penalty.

[mvd]

37. Yes

I have a lot of reasons I am against and you brought up one of them. The fact that it happened to a corporate CEO added even more for Trump and co.

[Ocelot II]

41. Exactly. If Thompson had been an executive of some obscure company,

or just some ordinary guy, and he'd been shot by some random criminal, said criminal would be prosecuted in the state court system and given a very long sentence, if not life. The shooter would not be prosecuted in the federal system or face the death penalty if the state didn't have it.

[Passages]

26. Of course Trump wants this, the kid scares him and those just like him.

Luigi makes a lot of greedy bastards who are intentionally screwing people nervous.

[Arazi]

28. Increasing the chance for jury nullification

Which was already a concern

[WarGamer]

29. Luigi and OJ

Anyone supporting Luigi is worse than those who supported OJ.

The difference is... Luigi was caught on camera.

I'm hoping the maggot fries.

[ForgedCrank]

36. By all

appearances, he is a cold-blooded, murderous assassin. The death penalty is an appropriate response to such acts.
There is no civilized excuse for condoning such behavior either.

[Ocelot II]

42. There are a lot of terrible people in prison who have been convicted

of murder, even multiple murders, and they didn't get the death penalty. Jeffrey Dahmer didn't get the death penalty (though he was murdered in prison). The murderer of George Floyd didn't get the death penalty. The right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik murdered 80 people in cold blood and even he didn't get the death penalty (because Norway is a civilized country). State-sanctioned murder is still murder, and objecting to the death penalty in any case is not condoning the original crime.

[ForgedCrank]

43. What's your point?

[Ocelot II]

44. My point is that Luigi shouldn't get the death penalty because nobody should.

I do not condone in any respect what he did.