The request for death penalty is a political trick

In New York, a federal big jury filed an indictment against Luigi Mangione, 26-year-old who is accused, Briana Thompson. As reported by a news agency Apthe key point of the indictment – the murder using firearms – Mangione in the event of a conviction allows the death penalty. This is a move by the US Minister of Justice Pam Bondi already announced before the indictment was formally filed at all. The indictment accuses Mangione two more criminal offenses stalking and unauthorized use of weapons or a damper, adds Sky News.

Tragic event happened on 4 December 2024 in Manhattan. Thompson was on his way to an annual conference for his company’s investors at the Hilton Hotel, when he was later shot by masked men from behind. The murder was shaken by the business world and the public, especially after the police revealed an interesting detail: the charges found at the scene of the crime were engraved words « Delay » (Deferred), « Deny » (reject) and « deposits » (dismiss). It is a phrase that critics often use to describe the alleged tactics of insurance companies in rejecting the coverage of treatment costs.

Five -day hunting and revelations from the notebook

The murder was launched by a large police search campaign lasting five days. Investigators tracked Mangione and apprehended 9 December in Altoona, Pennsylvania. According to the police, they found a gun that matched the weapon from the crime scene, a silencer and a notebook. The records in the notebook should reveal Mangione’s hostility towards health insurance companies and wealthy directors. The prosecution highlighted the record from October 2024, which is to describe the intention to « tidy up » the director of the insurance company. Despite these records, Unitedhealthcare announced that Mangione was never their insured person.

The case was given a marked political note in early April, when Minister of Justice Pam Bondi announced that the federal prosecutor’s office would claim the death penalty. As reported Sky Newsshe said that it « realizes the agenda of President Trump to stop violent crime and restore safe America. » This is the first request for the death penalty under Trump’s administration after his return to the White House and the interruption of the moratorium on federal executions.

Mangione’s defense led by a lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifiloshe responded sharply to this decision. After writing ABC News They claim that the death penalty request was a « political trick » and that the minister’s statement made before the indictment was detrimental to the proceedings against a large jury and violated Mangione’s constitutional rights. The defense therefore filed a request to the court to prevent the death penalty and the extradition of the documentation related to the Directive Minister. In order to strengthen the defense, a lawyer was also included in the team in February Avrahama Moskowitza specialist in cases of death penalty, reports Cnn.

Double process and divided public

In addition to the federal indictment, Luigi Mangione, otherwise a graduate ivy Universities from a wealthy family also face separate allegations in New York. There, the prosecution accuses him of the first -stage murder in connection with terrorism, which indicates a suspicion that the purpose of the act was to intimidate the wider population or influence government policy. In this procedure, where Mangione has already spoken up to the innocent, he is threatened by a lifelong imprisonment without the possibility of conditional discharge. According to Ap The proceedings are supposed to run in parallel, with the national case being the first to be trial.

The accused supporters in it see a kind of symbol of resistance against a system that many perceive as unfair due to high costs and difficulties in accessing treatment of treatment: Adam Gray/AFP

The example continues to echo. While the murder was shaken by business circles and caused concern among leaders in large corporations, some critics of the US health system, on the other hand, set themselves on the side of Mangione. It sees a kind of symbol of resistance against a system that many perceive as unfair due to high costs and difficulties in accessing treatment, writes Ap. The case remains at the heart of the legal and political debate, especially because of the issue of death penalty during the aggravated political relations.