Crime Attorney General Pam Bondi directs federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione - Mangione, 26, was charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last year.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last year.

Mangione, 26, was federally charged in December with stalking and murdering Thompson after the CEO was fatally shot on the streets of midtown Manhattan. He was also charged with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism by state prosecutors.

Bondi said that she was directing prosecutors to seek the death penalty as part of "President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again."

"Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America," Bondi said in a statement.

Mangione has pled not guilty to all charges. His lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment about the attorney general's request.

Thompson's Dec. 4 killing and subsequent colossal manhunt for his masked assassin captivated the nation for weeks.

The gunman fled on a bike outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where Thompson was staying for the health care company's annual investors' meeting, police said. City surveillance footage showed the gunman riding into Central Park before disappearing.

Five days later, on Dec. 9, Mangione was recognized in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and arrested that day.

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[Something Awful]

he didn't kill someone that was an inherent danger to society, like say a rapist or child molester.

Exactly wrong. Rapists or child molesters are a danger to individuals, scumbag insurance CEOs are a danger to the society as a whole.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Finally, my tax dollars doing some good in the world

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

A guy just got ran over by a dude in a Lexus. THE CEO OF LEXUS IS A MURDERER!
The CEO doesn't do jack shit about individual cases, he runs. The guy wasn't responsible for people's deaths when he's just a figurehead. A lightning rod for dumb fucks like you to aim your ire at.

"Just following the board of directors' orders" is no excuse. Justice may come for you at any time, as Mangione showed.

In other words killing without due process, no trial, no defense, that's what we call a "lynching". An unjudicial killing is the same as murder. This shouldn't be difficult to understand.

We didn't murder the British off our soil, we killed them off. Our cause was just, even though it was extrajudicial. Do you know how this country started?

Name one person that Brian Thompson or whatever the CEO's name was personally murdered. One person he looked directly in the eyes and said "suffer, peasant."

The odds that there is even just one person killed by Thompsons business decisions is a statistical certainty. And I only need one to justify a one-for-one execution.

Your hero is a mentally ill spoiled rotten man child.

You're not my hero. Oh you meant Mangione.

 

[AllieKat]

All this comes across as is "Justice is when I get the outcome I want"

Unironically this. Pearl clutching about "What if the roles were reversed" is just cuckservative 101.

Some people deserve to die/be deported and I'm tired of acting like they don't.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

You think you're killing a snake but instead you sliced just one head off the hydra, then turned your back to it and congratulated yourself.

Eh, bitch all you want he was doing the wishes of the assholes behind it all either way so maybe he should have not done that if he didn’t want to be a target. I mean look at what he was rah-rah’ing in his public addresses it was a mish-mash of butt-fucking people in the ass and claiming it was a good thing. So no, I’m not going be especially mad if Luigi bullseyed the dude that the boardroom wanted him to instead of the actual big bad, it was still a good effort and the Monopoly money thing was hilarious.

 

[Meth Dick]

If the jury assigned to an extrajudicial killing case gives a not guilty verdict, then he's not guilty of murder for committing that extrajudicial justice.

Except a jury isn't going to call it an "extrajudicial killing". They're going to call it a murder. Because that's what it is when you shoot somebody in the back without warning or provocation.

Not guilty is an option, and unanimously given is the result of a popularity contest. Frankly it is that popular and popularly sympathetic that Thompson was killed. Mangione did nothing wrong at all.

You have such a retarded concept of the judicial system I have to assume you're mentally a fucking 15 year old.

Everything you say comes off as "I'm a spoiled little prick and I deserve everything I want" which explains why you love Mangione so much. He reminds you of yourself. A narcissistic man child that has no idea how to behave when someone tells you "no".

We didn't murder the British off our soil, we killed them off. Our cause was just, even though it was extrajudicial. Do you know how this country started?

We were at war with the British you absolute fucking retard. None of you faggots are at war with CEOs or anyone else. You're cowards that praise people for shooting others in the back when things don't go your way.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I’m aware that my difficulty coming out and saying this is wrong makes me a hypocrite on the issue. But, it is what it is.

Two things can happen at the same time. Murder is wrong, but some people truly had it coming.

 

[Super Guido]

They know that he would be freed under the next liberal president lmao
Also they don't want people inspired by the amount of woman attention he's getting in jail IE fanmail

Looking at what Obama did with healthcare, a Liberal president would still be on the side of healthcare.

 

[Hack for crack]

Looking at what Obama did with healthcare, liberals are still on the side of health insurance companies. I'd be very surprised if they let him out.

>liberals are still on the side of health insurance companies
huh ? which planet are you on ? I only see praise for Luigi from them.

 

[Pod 042]

I mean, I don't see the problem here. If you don't like people cheering about it, I can understand that. However she's 'directing' them to basically seek the maximum penalty for the crime committed. He committed premeditated murder(not speculated we have it on film), the punishment for which can be as high as life imprisonment or death, so the death penalty was already on the table in his case.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

Except a jury isn't going to call it an "extrajudicial killing". They're going to call it a murder.

They could just as easily call it not guilty. As in if he's not guilty, it wasn't murder.

Because that's what it is when you shoot somebody in the back without warning or provocation.

The provocation was his policymaking. What is it when you kill using paperwork and your victims aren't even in the same city or state as you?

You have such a retarded concept of the judicial system I have to assume you're mentally a fucking 15 year old.

You fail to understand that a jury decides.

Everything you say comes off as "I'm a spoiled little prick and I deserve everything I want" which explains why you love Mangione so much. He reminds you of yourself. A narcissistic man child that has no idea how to behave when someone tells you "no".

Projection. I'm telling you no, and you keep pointing to what's written in law, perfectly content to ignore that the law also says juries decide.

We were at war with the British you absolute fucking retard. None of you faggots are at war with CEOs or anyone else.

A colony declaring war against its parent nation is against the law. The only reason we have Founding Fathers instead of George III's Traitors is because might made right.

You're cowards that praise people for shooting others in the back when things don't go your way.

You back Thompson when he killed people in other rooms, other buildings, other cities, other states from the comfort of his office. Who's the bigger coward?

 

[Super Guido]

>liberals are still on the side of health insurance companies
huh ? which planet are you on ? I only see praise for Luigi from them.

I meant a liberal president. The shitlibs I know despise Mangione.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

honestly Id rather be killed than have to rot in prison for the rest of my innumerable days
dude is still pretty young, could live a while yet

He can enjoy a good amount of censored fan mail for the next few years, and re-enjoy the same ones after he stops being the current thing.

 

[Meth Dick]

They could just as easily call it not guilty. As in if he's not guilty, it wasn't murder.

The provocation was his policymaking. What is it when you kill using paperwork and your victims aren't even in the same city or state as you?

You fail to understand that a jury decides.

Projection. I'm telling you no, and you keep pointing to what's written in law, perfectly content to ignore that the law also says juries decide.

A colony declaring war against its parent nation is against the law. The only reason we have Founding Fathers instead of George III's Traitors is because might made right.

You back Thompson when he killed people in other rooms, other buildings, other cities, other states from the comfort of his office. Who's the bigger coward?

Again I'm going to ask, who did Thompson kill? Who did he pull the trigger on, press the button, bring the sword down?
You're still acting like a child stomping your feet. "IT'S ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!!" Take some fucking responsibility and learn that the world doesn't owe you or any of these people Thompson magically killed anything.
You screaming at the wind that an obvious murder isn't a murder is just delusional no matter how you try to sugar coat it.
I know the idea of CEO's hurts your feelings but that's not an excuse to commit murder because you don't understand how companies work.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

"If you achieve a certain level of economic success you deserve to be brutally murdered in the street like a dog" is not a helpful or productive line of thought in a civil society.

We're not talking about "economic success" like "he's really good at playing the market and doing business", we're talking about "economic success" like his company is evil and makes money off human suffering by denying people life saving, medically necessary care because letting them die was cheaper than treating their illnesses. He and every other healthcare executive deserve it and worse.

I don't know, maybe he shouldn't have gotten caught. People rolling up and shooting other people isn't the society I want to live in, although it could be argued that it's the society people like healthcare CEOs have built. Shooting some guy in the back is nigger behavior though so I don't know. Fuck around and find out I guess.

The problem is that we have democracy and bureaucracy as non-violent alternatives, but those systems are 100% bought and paid for and these health insurance companies are completely immunized from consequences. They will deny someone care, knowing legally that they're in the wrong, but that suing a health insurance company successfully is next to impossible and they can just lawyer their way out of it. They are profoundly evil companies. Simping for these companies just because "duuuh dah leftists like dah shootah!" just shows you're a retard with partisan brainrot.

Under his tenure, United Healthcare began using AI to automatically deny coverage without any oversight because it was just cheaper and easier to blanket deny coverage from people they knew couldn't actually fight it. He 100000% deserved it.

 

[Spiny Rumples]

If he was actually the shooter then it was likely premeditated murder.

The CEO is the figurehead of the company, though. This company has a pretty bad reputation. There is a heavy bias towards rejecting valid claims, even if they result in a person's death. Blocking or delaying a valid claim for a life-saving operation is not seen as murder. Even if it was done intentionally due to pressure from above and the employees knew exactly what they were doing. Not premeditated if it's "just following orders." The employees' hands are dirty.

That's the company that this CEO made it his career to represent. Talk about betting on the wrong horse.

It's an issue of legal and societal standards vs. specific outliers.

 

[Throng of Titans]

You can think that Thompson was a dirty CEO while also still getting that doesn't justify extrajudicial murder.

I'd rather not live in a society where people feel encouraged to solve their problems by going right for murder.

 

[Hodgdon H4350]

"a civilized society is one where some faggot gets to line his pockets with millions of dollars from people he's delaying life saving care for simply to get more shekels"
maybe this civilized society thing ain't all it's cracked up to be

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

Again I'm going to ask, who did Thompson kill? Who did he pull the trigger on, press the button, bring the sword down?

I only need one victim. Anyone who died during Thompson's tenure because UnitedHealth said no is blood on their hands. One guilty party, Thompson, has received justice.

You're still acting like a child stomping your feet. "IT'S ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!!"

Youre doing that but saying RULES ARE RULES..

Take some fucking responsibility and learn that the world doesn't owe you or any of these people Thompson magically killed anything.

What the world supposedly owes to murdered people is justice. If that's a fairy tale as you imply then we should do away with the pretense.

You screaming at the wind that an obvious murder isn't a murder is just delusional no matter how you try to sugar coat it.

Twelve citizens in a jury box can scream not guilty into a courtroom and it magically makes it not murder. Funny that.

I know the idea of CEO's hurts your feelings but that's not an excuse to commit murder because you don't understand how companies work.

I have no problems with CEOs or the idea of them. Its the guilty I hate. Any CEO whose business decisions lead to the death of his customers deserves execution and I'm glad one was given that justice. Every little bit helps, doesn't it.

 

[frozen_runner]

I'm not saying this privileged half-a-fag doesn't deserve the needle. And I'm not saying dumbfucks wouldn't worship him anyway. But this would just make him a martyr, and what he really needs to do is rot in prison.