Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urge judge to block death penalty over insurance CEO’s murder
By Luc Cohen
New York (Reuters) -luigi Mangione’s lawyers on Saturday, a federal judge in New York, prosecutors to prevent the death penalty for his clients accused of killing Unitedhealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a court application, Mangione’s lawyers argued that US ministry officials should be prevented from seeking death penalty for violating process rights. They said that on television, “inhuman, contrary to the constitution” staged a “inhuman, contrary to the constitution”, which he said, “on television, on television and photographed from a helicopter in shackles on his way to his first appearance.
The movement, “from more than one public officials, especially the US Chief Public Prosecutor, through the start of this case on April 17, 2025 through the great jury vote, the allegation of death penalty against Mr. Mangione should be rejected because of the clear, deliberate and damaging nature of this case.
Mangione claimed that he was not guilty of the death of Thompson, leading to the insurance unit of Unitedhealth Group, was not guilty of the death of Thompson last December 4th. Thompson was shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel where company executives attended an investment conference.
He condemned the killing of public officials, but many Americans, 27, 27, said that the disappointment of the United States of the United States and health insurers shared with the power to refuse to pay for some treatments.
The concern about increasing political violence in the United States has grown after the assassination of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk since Thompson’s murder, especially last week.
Prosecutors to the Manhattan US attorney office to claim to keep the death penalty as an option if mangione is sentenced until October 31st. He faces the accusation of follow -up and murder between states.
The case is audited by the US Regional Judge Margaret Garnett. On April 1, the US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi’s death of Thompson’s “America shocking, a cold -blooded assassination” called the Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi’s death penalty for Mangione.
Mangione lawyers described this announcement as “unapologlically political” and said that prosecutors first conduct a long investigation or give back normal protocols by giving them the chance to push back to defense lawyers.
Mangione’s next Federal Court’s view on December 5 and Garnett later said that a hearing date for 2026.
If Garnett allows a death penalty and a jury prisoner condemns Mangion, the same jury thinks whether it should be executed.
Mangione also faces the number of penalties at nine state levels, including murder. On Tuesday, New York State Judge Gregory Carro rejected two terrorism charges against Mangione.
New York’s death penalty was declared in contradiction with the constitution in 2004, but the ban is applied in state cases, not in federal cases.
Mangione is confronted with life in prison if he is convicted in the state case. The next hearing is planned on December 1st and no trial date was determined.
(Reporting Luc Cohen in New York; Additional Reports by Jan Wolfe in Washington; Organizing Daniel Wallis and David Gregorio)
