Judge rules Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty
Fox News’ Nate Foy reports that a judge agreed to dismiss the most serious charge against Luigi Mangione and denied the defense’s request to suppress some evidence. Legal Editor Kerri Urbahn discusses the judge’s decisions.
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Luigi Mangione escaped the death penalty.
The accused killer’s life will be spared after federal prosecutors said Friday that they would not appeal a judge’s decision to overturn the death penalty against him.
In a letter, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District said it accepted U.S. District Judge Margarett Garnett’s Jan. 30 decision to dismiss murder charges against Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024.
Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty after federal prosecutors said Friday they would not appeal a judge’s ruling in seeking the death penalty against the accused killer. (Curtis means DailyMail/Pool)
Although Mangione has not been charged with murder, he still faces two federal stalking charges.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin on September 8th. Opening statements begin in October.
Mangione, 27, also faces a life sentence in a separate murder trial in state court scheduled to begin in June. He has pleaded not guilty to Thompson’s murder.
To accuse Mangione Federal accusation In the case of murder involving the use of a firearm, prosecutors need an underlying crime of violence, Garnett said in her January ruling.
This 2017 file photo of Brian Thompson was published via Businesswire when he was named chief executive officer of the UnitedHealthcare unit in 2017. (Businesswire)
Garnett wrote that she was bound by it Supreme Court Precedent.
“Over the last two decades or so, the Supreme Court has embarked on a legal journey, explained here, that now requires lower courts to engage in an analysis entirely divorced from the conduct in question and focused on the hypothetically least serious conduct that could possibly cover the crime charged,” she wrote.
Surveillance cameras recorded the killing. Video footage showed Thompson walking down a flight of stairs Manhattan sidewalk in front of a hotel when a gunman came up from behind and opened fire.
Composite image of Luigi Mangione with inset of the shooting of Brian Thompson (Fox News)
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Thompson suffered multiple gunshot wounds and fell to the ground. The gunman fled and was later seen riding his bicycle into the city.
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