Prosecutors to ask for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, says Bondi

The Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that she would ask the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was accused of having murdered the director of Unitedhealthcare, Brian Thompson, in front of a hotel in the Midtown Manhattan last December.

Ms. Bondi said that her decision had come after “special attention” and was in accordance with President Trump’s decree ordering the Ministry of Justice to renew the use of death penalty requests after President Biden declared a moratorium on capital punishment for most federal delinquents in 2021.

This decision, which was widely awaited, represented the intersection of Mr. Trump’s anti -crime agenda with a case of murder that has repercussions – the cheeky public murder of a 50 -year -old health care manager caught because Mr. Mangione saw him as a symbol of the greed of the insensitive enterprise, according to the prosecutors.

“The murder by Luigi Mangione by Brian Thompson – an innocent man and father of two young children – was a premeditated and composure assassination that shocked America,” Bondi said in a statement.

Ms. Bondi managed Matthew Podolsky, the acting American lawyer in Manhattan, to ask for the death penalty. Nicholas Biase, spokesperson for the office, who continued Mr. Mangione’s federal affair, refused to comment on Tuesday.

It is not clear if the department, under Ms. Bondi, has already asked for the use of the death penalty – but the request that it be applied if Mr. Mangione is condemned is among the first.