US federal prosecutors formally announced the court on Thursday that they were planning to apply for death for 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. The man is accused of murdering the Director General of the largest US health insurance company UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson. According to Reuters report, TASR reports this.
In their justification prosecutors in court filing They stated that Mangione “poses a threat to the future, as he expressed his intention to focus on the whole industry (health insurance) and to evoke political and social resistance against it through an act with fatal consequences.” At the beginning of April, US Minister of Justice Pam Bondi ordered the Federal Prosecutors to ask Mangione’s death penalty.
The lawyers of the accused did not respond immediately on Thursday at a request for a comment. They had previously stated that the words of the Minister of 1 of April were “unjustifiable political” and violated government protocols for decisions on the death punishment. If Mangione is convicted in the federal case, the jury will decide in a separate phase of the process whether it will recommend the death penalty. Any such recommendation must be unanimous and the judge would be obliged to save it.
Thompson’s fifty -year -old was shot by an attacker in a Manhattan in New York in early December as he walked to the hotel where a conference of investors of the insurance company took place. Mangione was detained five days later – December 9 – Based on a tip from the McDonald’s Restaurant Restaurant employees in a hundred kilometers away from Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was found in a medical veil and a winter cap. He had an open laptop and presented a false identity card to the police. In a personal search of with him The police found a weapon made using a 3D printer used to murder Thompson.
The man is accused of the murder of Thompson at both state and federal levels. In the first case, he declared in December in a Court of New York that he was innocent. If he is convicted, he is punishable by a life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release. At the federal level, he faces the death penalty.
According to AFP, the murder of Thompson brought deep dissatisfaction to the public from the lucrative commercial healthcare system in the US. Many social network users have portrayed Mangione, who, according to investigators, was motivated by anger to US health insurance companies as a hero.
