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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[m1ddl3m4rch]

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

Let's not fool ourselves into thinking the justice system and legislators didn't have decades to sort out that murder by insurance denials is wrong. Luigi didn't "go right for murder". Everyone has waited decades for comeuppance like this.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

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

I'd rather not live in a society where denying someone a life saving medical procedure is just considered good business and is seen as less monstrous than shooting the guy making the most money off of it.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

@Helvetia is not gonna like this.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

Translation of the article:
"Pam Bondi, known for the Jeffrey Epstein filedrop disaster and nothing else. Is seeking the death penalty for someone who arguably did more to fix the US healthcare system than the last 20 years of presidencies."

I hope that her involvement fucks this up royally and they introduce a ton of jurors that hate their health insurance provider and get that firearm thrown out as evidence since it was repacked by the officer before Luigi was taken in.
I hope this becomes OJ Simpson for the US middle class.

Also, note that the death penalty is usually only invoked when the defendant is clearly a threat to others and a lost cause, like an aggressive pitbull with a taste for blood. Invoking it here is such an aging careerwoman thing to do. She's desperate for a win of any kind that she can barnacle onto.

 

[Meth Dick]

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.

Not a victim no matter how much you pretend.

Youre doing that but saying RULES ARE RULES..

Rules are rules, and guess what? They apply to you too.

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.

Not giving someone surgery or drugs isn't murder, grow up.

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

Good we don't have to worry about that happening because any one that's retarded enough to call it "not murder" isn't smart enough to find themselves in a jury pool.

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.

I think you're just a bleeding heart desperate to sound like you're on "the right side of history".

I'm not defending Thompson as a CEO. I'm stating he got murdered. Like him or hate him, it was still a schizophrenic with some kind of hero complex that decided he was going to shoot an unsuspecting guy in the back, and all it achieved was every other shitty CEO going "I need more security!"
Whatever plans he may have had of changing how healthcare works failed immensely. All he did was make everyone against those companies look like violent psychos that need to be monitored.

 

[Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu]

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

Right to murder? How long have insurance companies been stealing the money and killing their customers?

Supposedly we live in a civilized society. American citizens have made an agreement with our government that we will let them handle law and order and the punishment of criminals. Our American Government has broken that agreement with its citizens. We have no equal justice. We have no justice, period. The government does not put ALL criminals in prison, most especially if they’re rich or powerful. When your Government reneges on the promise to its citizens, that it will uphold law and order and that we are all Equal under the law, what exactly is a person to do?

Americans criminal justice system is just that, justice to criminals and those with power and money and fuck the rest of us.

 

[Pendulous Dong]

Pam Bondi isn't very smart so she probably doesn't realize she's also seeking the death penalty for herself.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

Sorry chuds, only governments and corporations are allowed to indiscriminately murder people. You just have to Trust The Process like a good nigger cattle slave.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

Not a victim no matter how much you pretend.

Tell that to the families of UnitedHealthcare policy victims.

Rules are rules, and guess what? They apply to you too.

And yet juries saying not guilty is in the rules too.

Not giving someone surgery or drugs isn't murder, grow up.

Medical malpractice frequently is prosecuted as murder. Denying needed treatments is too.
Shooting a murderer to death isn't murder. Grow up. Watch some Westerns.

Good we don't have to worry about that happening because any one that's retarded enough to call it "not murder" isn't smart enough to find themselves in a jury pool.

As I said, half the country disagrees with you.

I think you're just a bleeding heart desperate to sound like you're on "the right side of history".

That's cute, but I voted Trump and red down the line. That doesn't mean I give a shit about the perfectly just extrajudicial execution of an evil, evil man. May many more follow him into the grave.

 

[neger psykolog]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Nagano

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-19-mn-9226-story.html

In 1985, two men – Masakazu Yano and Atsuo Iida[3] – entered his house in Osaka through the window while at least 40 reporters watched,[4] proceeding to stab him to death[5] with a bayonet. One of the murderers received an 8-year jail sentence while the other received a 10-year sentence. The killers claimed to be hired assassins working on behalf of jilted former investors.

 

[David Brown]

Functional society requires murder to always be murder.

I'd love to have a functional society, let me know when they get around to it

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's good to see people realize how gay was the whole affair. Especially when even supporters admit that if they were in the ceo positions they wouldn't be able to do anything anyways. And of course nothing changed.

The idea of muh martyrdom is just ridiculous, no one gives a shit besides LARPers and femcels that would move to the next famous guy.

 

[Tapeworm Addict]

The amount of kiwis who will simp for health insurance companies and CEOs who would have them die a slow, torturous death if it meant a .000001% increase quarterly revenue, just for the sake of owning the libs, still kinda astonishes me.
It's patently obvious that the reason multi-billion dollar corporations continue to rape us and our country everyday is because they've successfully sewn this division into our society in the first place. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. CEOs being afraid of actual consequences from us unwashed masses is a win for everyone, regardless of how disgusting and obnoxious some of his supporters are.

 

[Luigi Mangione]

wtf why are they trying to kill me

 

[libRT]

Functional society requires murder to always be murder.

Agreed, so the sentencing should be the same, otherwise murder is murder except when its murder.

Which makes me think that this is a plan to enrage the left so much that they can crackdown with an iron fist and be supported for doing so. Either that or they are just as retarded as every other administration and think they are above equality under the law.

 

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

The amount of kiwis who will simp for health insurance companies and CEOs who would have them die a slow, torturous death if it meant a .000001% increase quarterly revenue, just for the sake of owning the libs, still kinda astonishes me

I would argue those companies would have them go through a quick, apathetic death for free because they are kiwis.

 

[Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu]

That's cute, but I voted Trump and red down the line. That doesn't mean I give a shit about the perfectly just extrajudicial execution of an evil, evil man. May many more follow him into the grave.

Same and I think it’s throwing people off. Tribalism isn’t only alive and kicking on the ‘left’.

This case has been a litmus test imposed on us by some ‘Republicans’. Either agree to take it up your un-lubed ass by Corporate Insurance and the Government, or “you can’t sit with us” , don’tcha know this is MAGA country, bitch. You better kneel and lick the boot of BIG CORPORATE , the Uber wealthy and CEO’s.

 

[blackface enthusiast]

The amount of kiwis who will simp for health insurance companies and CEOs who would have them die a slow, torturous death if it meant a .000001% increase quarterly revenue, just for the sake of owning the libs, still kinda astonishes me.
It's patently obvious that the reason multi-billion dollar corporations continue to rape us and our country everyday is because they've successfully sewn this division into our society in the first place. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. CEOs being afraid of actual consequences from us unwashed masses is a win for everyone, regardless of how disgusting and obnoxious some of his supporters are.

Yeah but don't you get it? There are LEFITSTS who like the shooter! I'd rather counter signal those guys and be a good nigger cattle slave than admit that this country is a retarded fucking joke!

 

[A Cat in a Minefield]

Another W for the Trump admin! Let's fucking gooooo.

 

[Tacgnol]

isn't smart enough to find themselves in a jury pool.

Found the teenager.