A judge ruled Friday that federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is charged with gunning down a UnitedHealthcare executive in Midtown Manhattan.
U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett threw out a charge that was the basis for the Justice Department to seek a death sentence against Mangione.
Garnett said the killing of Brian Thompson outside a hotel in December 2024 was clearly a crime of violence, but she said murder charges can rarely be brought under federal law, and only under very specific circumstances that prosecutors hadn’t met in the Mangione case…
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