Luigi Mangione presented to a federal court this Friday – Liberation

Will he incur or not the death penalty? Luigi Mangionecurrently detained in a federal prison in Brooklyn, will be back in a court this Friday, April 18, after its indictment Thursday by a large jury of the Federal Court of Manhattan, a stage which now allows prosecutors to require capital sentence.

Accused of having murdered in December in New York The boss of the private health insurance company Unitédhealth, Brian Thompsonthe 26 -year -old was already faced with accusations of murder and possession of weapons at New York State, where the death penalty is not in force. The federal accusation act does not introduce new charges, but it therefore increases the stakes for mangione, which pleaded not guilty on the level of the state of the accusation of murder of murder as an « terrorist » act. This accusation act means that the Grand Jury estimated that there were elements necessary to charm Mangione for « murder », « harassment » and « infractions to firearms ».

Upstream of this hearing, Mangione and his lawyers asked a judge to prohibit federal prosecutors from requiring the death penalty. In a document submitted to the file last week, his lawyers claimed that public speaking of the Minister of Justice Pam Bondiaccusing him of having perpetrated « An act of political violence » Who « Shocked America » and openly asking prosecutors to require capital punishment, was « Resolutely political » And breaks the government protocols in matters of death. If this request fails and Luigi Mangione is found guilty in the Federal affair, the jury will then have to decide unanimously during a distinct phase of the trial if he recommends the death penalty. In which case the judge would be obliged to apply it.

Brian Thompson was shot dead on December 4 in front of a Midtown Manhattan hotel, where the company held a conference for its investors. This murder in the street, followed of a five -day man huntcaptivated the United States. If most public officials have condemned this act, many Americans have expressed their support for Mangione, saying that he had drawn attention to the exorbitant cost Health care in the United States And on the overpower of insurers, who may refuse to reimburse certain treatments. The young man, an engineer graduated from a large university and son of a good family, had also become a star of social networks, both for his radical act and his beautiful mouth.