US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
The 26-year-old is accused of shooting dead healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the penalty for the "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination".
In the press release, Bondi said Mr Thompson's murder "was an act of political violence" and that it "may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons" nearby.
A lawyer for Mr Mangione called the decision "barbaric", accused the government of "defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry", and said Mr Mangione was caught in a tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors.
"While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi," said Karen Friedman Agnifilo in a statement.
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The killing of a non-political figure due to that person heading a company that regularly rejects insurance claims of sick people is "political violence" in what way? If this is political violence then every killing is.
His manifesto suggests political motives more than personal ones.
*A manifesto alleged to have been found on the suspect.
If every ideological thought is also political, then so are most murders.
If everything is political, then nothing is political.
No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.
I mean, it seems pretty clear that Luigi didn't have a personal beef with Thompson directly, but moreso with the political system that allowed Thompson to thrive. I'm not really sure why saying this was politically-motivated is so divisive.
“It’s clear that the mass murderer didn’t have personal beef with the women he killed. It’s ideological because he hates society.”
So I guess everything is terrorism.
Luigi is a mass murderer?
Analogy. I’m simply applying your reasoning to designate random murders as terrorism.
No, I can see that. What I don't understand is why. "If the situation were different, then the situation would be different" isn't really saying anything, so I'm not sure what the point of that was.
The claim was that by your reasoning, situations that are not terrorism would be classified as terrorism.
You used a completely different scenario in which the only commonality is "one person killed another". The motive behind the two scenarios is entirely different, and literally the crux of the charges he's facing. I'm not sure what sort of point you're trying to make.
Allegedly