Attorneys for Luigi Mangione asked a judge to stop federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against their client, saying the U.S. government “intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political stunt.”
The motion filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the death penalty to “carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”
Mangione, 26, who faces state murder and terrorism charges in New York, along with federal murder and stalking charges, is accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year in New York City.
I want absolutely fucking everyone to stop calling it an assassination.
Words have meaning.
This was a murder. Let’s not elevate CEOs to the status of the House.
How was it not an assassination?
Because an assassination specifically involves the killing of someone holding political power or public office… like an elected official, diplomat, or head of state. CEOs may have economic influence or lobby politicians, but they’re not government officials or elected representatives. Calling it an assassination falsely equates corporate influence with legitimate political authority, elevating economic power to the same status as democratic representation. It’s a murder, not an assassination. Words matter, and precision here is crucial.
I feel like acknowledging that corporate interests DO have extreme political power is kind of the whole point.
first of it itsnt, political, or a public figure. hes a low-level CEo, you wouldnt know existed.
The CEO of UHC is both a public and a political figure
It was retaliatory. It was the price the CEO paid for underhanded practices that killed thousands. By denying those people healthcare that could have been life saving; he, the CEO, invited what happened. If something that would be considered illegal is done in protection of others it shouldn’t be a crime.
and witty was brazen to double down too.
By definition, it was an assassination.
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, personal, financial, or military motives.
Yeah you’re doing the thing where you elevate a CEO to that of a person of prominence and imprtantce.
That’s oligarchy shit.
Homeboy was a rich fuck with a job and kids, and he got murdered. Seemingly in cold blood.
Not assassinated.
Yeah. You’re doing the thing where you change the definition of a thing to that of something that better matches your personal opinion of it.
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, personal, financial, or military motives.
I highlighted the words that are synonymous with a CEO of one of the largest insurance companies to ever exist.
Yeah. He was not important.
Not an assassination.
An overpaid guy with a job.
Murdered.
Not prominent or important because he was a CEO, because he was responsible for so many deaths. Prominent in complicity.
Yeah. You’re doing the thing where you change the definition of a thing to that of something that better matches your personal opinion of it again.
Not before he was able to purposefully take thousands of innocent people with him so he could still have the dollas.
An alleged murder!
Oh, no.
Dude was murdered.
We just don’t know who did it. :)
Not til proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury of their (also healthcare deprived) peers.
No way was that guy murdered, i saw the video, he just collapsed after someone pointed at him.
I’m guessing he had a pre-existing allergy to lead.
Yeah but he was an asshole which was a pre-existing condition, so we’re going to have to deny murder coverage here.
But luigi didn’t do it. He was with me playing video games in altiona
he was in canada at the time.
Who said Luigi???
Not me!