A.G. Gancarski
Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking capital punishment for the alleged assassin of a health care executive last year.
Bondi says the execution of Luigi Mangione, should he be convicted, will help “Make America Safe Again.”
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,” Bondi said of the 26-year-old Marylander accused of killing the United Health CEO in December 2024.
“After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”
Mangione has not pleaded guilty to state charges and has not entered a plea on federal charges regarding the allegation, according to CNN.
Among the federal charges against Mangione: first-degree murder; murder in furtherance of terrorism; criminal possession of a weapon; and stalking.
Bondi’s press release says that as “alleged, Luigi Mangione stalked and murdered UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024. The murder was an act of political violence. Mangione’s actions involved substantial planning and premeditation and because the murder took place in public with bystanders nearby, may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons.”
The pursuit of capital punishment is rooted, Bondi’s Office notes, in a memo entitled “Reviving The Federal Death Penalty And Lifting The Moratorium On Federal Executions.” The policy outlined therein ends what is called a “shameful era” under President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland, where federal death sentences were commuted.
5 comments
Paul Passarelli
April 1, 2025 at 11:56 am
the article states: “Bondi’s press release says that as “alleged, Luigi Mangione stalked and murdered UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024. The murder was an act of political violence.”
Which is bad for her position that executing him will have the desired effect. She might be able to end his life, but she will fail to silence his message.
Ron Ogden
April 1, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Poor thinkers will cry that people who favor the death penalty are cruel and brutal and harbor prejudices of some kind, but they are poor thinkers and can’t be expected to understand that the opposite is true. We need the death penalty because we hope the fear of it will stop people from committing capital crimes. We want to see the day when people do not kill each other. If using the death penalty, with all its flaws, will advance that day, that is right reason to use it. I doubt there is any evidence at all that stopping the death penalty reduces the frequency of criminal murder.
Ray Jackson
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 pm
Poor thinkers think the death penalty deters homicide. It doesn’t, and Europe has no death penalty and less homicide. Also more gun laws and less gun crime. And universal healthcare. Their left leaning politics and resulting egalitarian society is the reason.
Ed Slavin
April 1, 2025 at 1:25 pm
#FreeLuigi
LexT
April 2, 2025 at 8:35 am
I’m not a real fan of the Death Penalty, simply because if there is any chance you got the wrong person, incarceration is not permanent. If anyone deserves the Death Penalty, Luigi Mangione does. What Mangione did was nothing short of assassination. Mangione seems unrepentant and feels his murder was justified. Society needs to condemn this action, and the sympathy for Mangione is dangerous. We cannot, as a society, remotely endorse what Mangione did, even if we think that insurance CEOs do bad things. Killing them is not justified, and Mangione needs to be condemned and punished as harshly as possible to dissuade copycats. If you can justify killing the CEO of an insurance company, the slope is super slippery to justify killing almost anyone.