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The lawyers of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of having killed the chief executive of United Healthcare, ask a federal judge to prevent the Ministry of Justice from asking for the death penalty, describing the “political blow” decision.
Earlier this month, the Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Ministry of Justice would continue the death penalty in the case of the mangione, fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to take over the federal executions.
Mangione lawyers are looking for judicial intervention, arguing that the Ministry of Justice should be prevented from asking for the death penalty because it has not followed certain protocols and violated the regular Mangione procedure.
Bondi’s public statements, they argue, have also marred the Grand Jury.
“The stakes could not be higher. The United States government intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political blow,” his lawyers wrote to the judge. “Mr. Mangione’s lawyer asked for three months to prepare for a comprehensive submission of attenuation to the Capital Committee of the Ministry of Justice and was ignored.”
Bondi said that she would order the American acting prosecutor in the South York South District, Matthew Podolsky, to ask for the death penalty in the Si Mangione is sentenced to capital murder. A spokesperson for the American lawyer’s office in Manhattan refused to comment on the case on Friday.
Mangione, 26, faces accusations of state murder and federals for having pretended the CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson outside a hotel in the Midtown Manhattan last year.
Mangione pleaded not guilty to state accusations. He was charged in a federal criminal complaint but has not yet been charged with federal accusations. One of the federal accusations, the murder thanks to the use of a firearm, carries a maximum death sentence, if it is found guilty.
Since the Bondi’s announcement, donations to the Mangione Legal Defense Fund have filed.
Mangione lawyers said they had pleaded against the death penalty at a “gathered” meeting in a hurry with the federal prosecutors in New York in the last days of the Biden administration and were then informed that the Capital Case Committee was not made by decision. His lawyers said that they had then looked for three months to make a more complete submission with mitigating factors, but were informed that a decision would be made before that.
“In the end, any attenuation would have fallen into the ear of a deaf in any case, because the Attorney General was clearly concerned only by” the directive of the president “and by the policy” Make America Safe “of the administration instead of the facts of this case”, wrote his lawyers in the case.
