American general prosecutors to search for the death penalty with Luigi Mangion
BBC News, Washington, DC
American prosecutors will seek the death penalty in front of Luigi Mangion, the man accused of shooting at the deadly chief executive of UNITEDHEALTHCARE Brian Thompson in December.
Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to obtain a death penalty for “the assassination integrated in cold blood.”
Mr. Thompson was shot outside a hotel in New York on December 4. The police arrested Mr. Mangion, 26, a day later in Pennsylvania after a hunt worldwide.
He admitted that he was not guilty of the charges of the state, and has not yet entered into separate federal accusations. He is waiting for the trial in New York Prison.
In the press statement, Bondi said that the killing of Mr. Thompson was “a act of political violence” and that “it may be a great danger to death for additional people” near.
Investigators say that Mr. Manager was enthusiastic about the killing of Mr. Thompson, 50, due to the anger of American health insurance companies.
The lawyer of the Mangarians described the “Al -Hamji” decision, and accused the government of “defending the broken and immoral health care industry and fighting”, and said that Mr. Mangarians fell into a rope between the state between states and federal public prosecutors.
“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government is moving to commit the state -sponsored murder of Luigi,” Karen Friedman Agufilo said in a statement.
Mr. Mangion faces 11 criminal charges in the state in New York, including killing and first -degree killing as a crime of terrorism.
If he is convicted of all charges, it will face a mandatory penalty from life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release.
But federal prosecutors separately accused Mr. Mangarians for using a firearm to commit a murder and a chase between the states resulting from death. These accusations make him eligible for the death penalty.
Prosecutors said that federal issues and government issues will move forward in parallel with each other.

Mr. Manjeen is held at the Metropolitan Conservation Center (MDC) Brooklyn.
New York Public Prosecutors has already participated in their case against him, including a positive match for his fingerprints with those who discovered at the crime scene.
According to New York County Attorney Alvin Prague, Mr. Mansion arrived in New York City on November 24 and remained at the Manhattan Hostel using a 10 -day fake identifier before an attack against Mr. Thompson.
A healthcare coach was shot at the back by a convincing striker on December 4 while he was walking in a hotel where the company he led was holding a meeting for investors.
The country led the country to the police to Mr. Manji, five days later, hundreds of miles away from McDonald’s in Altona, Pennsylvania.
Police said that when they found the Monjion, he was in possession of a ghost rifle – a firearm assembled from unlawful parts – a fake identifier, a passport, and handwritten documents indicating “motivation and mentality.”
The killing of Mr. Thompson sparked a charged discussion on how the American health care system works.
Some Americans, who are paying health care more than people in any other country, have expressed their anger at what they see as unfair treatment by insurance companies.
US Secretary of Internal Security Alejandro Mayorkas said in December that the rhetoric on social media in the wake of the killing was “unusually worrying.”
He told CBS to the nation: “He talks about what is really going on here in this country, and unfortunately we see this manifests itself in violence, and the existing violent extremism.”