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Luigi Mangione declared that he was not guilty of federal charges on Friday that he had won Health Insurance CEO Brian Thompson, the day after prosecutors officially stated their intention to seek the death penalty.
Mangione, 26, wore a t -shirt with a tanned jail as they led him in a crowded lower court at Manhattan. He had previously declared that he was not guilty of a separate gathering of the New York state charges for the murder of Thompson, December 4, former Unitedhealth Group executive director Unitedhealthcare insurance units.
He acknowledged a complaint before the US District Judge Margaret Garnett.
US prosecutors officially told the court on Thursday that they were planning to seek a death sentence for mangiones.
Justifying their decision, the prosecutors wrote in their submission that Mangione “was a future danger because he expressed the intention of targeting the entire industry, and gathering political and social opposition to the industry, involving the act of deadly violence.”
The U.S. State Attorney Pam Bondi announced earlier this month that the Ministry of Justice would request a death sentence for Mangiones. The court, which filed on Thursday, filed a Manhattan lawyer’s lawyer, formalizes the intention of the plaintiff to bring a death sentence.
Mangiono’s lawyers said Bondi’s announcement was “Non -Political Political” on April 1.
If the mangione was convicted in a federal case, the jury would determine at a separate phase of the trial whether it would recommend a death sentence. Each such recommendation must be unanimous and the judge should impose it.
Executive director Unitedhealth Group Andrew Witty mourned the murder of executive director Brian Thompson and said that on Friday he understood public frustrations with a ‘wrong’ US health system, in the New York Times interest. This is his first public comment since Thompson, Executive Director of Unitedhealth, has been shot down last week.
Thompson was killed on December 4 in front of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where the company gathered at the investor conference. Brazen killed and followed by a five -day Manhunt fascinated Americans.
Police officers in Altoon, well, found a 9mm gun mangione with a gun and a snack of a 9mm clothing that was worn by the clothes that Thompson’s scorer wore in the surveillance recordings and a notebook describing the intent “Wack” executive director of the insurance company, according to a court.
Some Americans cheered the mangiones, which was not known to be a buyer or client Unitedhealth, saying that he had drawn attention to the steep cost of American health care and the power of health insurers to refuse to pay for some treatments.
Mangione is held at the Federal Lockip in Brooklyn.
The audience of the people, many supporters, flew to the New York courtroom, where Luigi Mangione declared that he was not guilty of charges of murder and terrorism of first instance in the death of executive director Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson.
The decision to seek the death penalty revives the practice seen in Donald Trump’s first administration, when 13 executions were performed between July 2020 and January 2021.
Previously, there were 17-year breaks in the executions of federal prisoners, and none were performed during the Barack Obama Presidency or during the second term of George W. Bush.
In the administration of Joe Biden, the Attorney General Merrick Garland launched a moratorium on federal executions in 2021 while re -examined proceedings, although two cases of death sentence with origin that continued before the Presidency of Biden – one involved anti -Semitic weapons who killed 11 people in Massa Buffalo Synagogugug.
The Ministry of Justice under Garland refused to conduct a death sentence in other mass murders, including a hateful attacker towards immigrants who killed 23 people at Walmart El Pas in Texas in 2019. That striker, Patrick Crusius, was sentenced to life in prison this week.
