The US attorney general asks the death penalty for Luigi Mangione

Prosecutors in the USA will ask for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shot Brian Thompson, Executive Director of UnitedHealthcare, the largest Health Insurer in the United States.

Attorney General Pam Bondi declared Tuesday that he had ordered federal prosecutors to request the penalty for the «premeditated murder and cold blood,» said the BBC.

Thompson was shot dead in front of a hotel in New York on December 4. Police arrested Mangione, 26, weeks later in Pennsylvania, after an intense national search.

Mangione, meanwhile, declared himself innocent of state positions and has not yet submitted a statement responding to different federal positions. He is currently waiting for trial in a federal prison in New York.

In the press release, Bondi said that Thompson’s murder «was an act of political violence» and that «there could be a serious risk of death for other people» in the vicinity.

The researchers claim that Mangione’s motivation to commit the murder was their anger with insurance companies American health. The defendant faces 11 state criminal charges in New York, including first -degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism.

If he is convicted of all charges, he would face a mandatory perpetual chain sentence Without probation.

The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has also accused Luigi Mangione separately to use a firearm to commit murder and interstatal harassment with the result of death. These charges make it susceptible to the death penalty. He has not yet submitted a statement about those charges.