New York/Washington: the United States General Prosecutor Pamela Bondi ordered the federal ministries to ask for the dying penalty for Luigi Mangone, the person accused of getting shot and killed Brian Thompson, CEO of the insurance coverage division of the Unitedhealth group, in New York final 12 months.
In a declaration, Mangone’s lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo outlined the choice to hunt the dying penalty “Barbaric”.
“While claiming to guard from the homicide, the Federal Government strikes to commit the pre-mediated homicide and sponsored by the state of Luigi,” stated Friedman Agnofilo.
Mangione, 26 years outdated, declared himself not responsible of the costs of homicide of the State of New York as an act of terrorism and crimes of weapons. He might face life in jail with out conditional freedom if sentenced in that case. New York has no dying penalty for state accusations.
Mangione faces a federal accusation parallel within the Federal Court of Manhattan for Thompson’s homicide. He might face the dying penalty if sentenced in that case. He has not but been requested to take part in a purpose for the federal accusations.
If Mangone was sentenced within the federal case, the jury would decide in a separate part of the method whether or not to advocate the dying penalty. Any advice of this kind should be unanimous and the choose can be required to impose it.
Thompson was killed with a gunshot on December 4th exterior a Midtown Manhattan Hotel, the place the corporate was gathering for a convention for traders.
“The homicide of Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangone – an harmless man of two babies – was a premeditated and chilly blood assassination that shocked America,” Bondi stated in a word.
