In December, the insurance company United Healthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson is shot to death on an open street in Manhattan. 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was later arrested on suspicion of the act.
It emerged that the empty sleeves were marked with the words “deny”, “defend” and “set aside”, which has been used in criticism of the US healthcare system.
Mangione has denied the charges, and is facing murder metal both at the state level in New York and at the federal level. The latter has the death penalty in the penalty scale, writes AP.
Justice Minister Pam Bondi is now urging federal prosecutors to claim the death penalty for Mangione.
In line with Trump’s policy
In one Statement, she writes that this is done after careful consideration, and as part of the new administration’s criminal policy.
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson – an innocent man and father of two young children – was an superior, cold -blooded execution that shocked the United States.”
She also writes that the deed was politically motivated and meant the danger of death for people around.
The Trump administration has wanted to expand the use of the death penalty in the United States, and on his first day Trump signed an order for the Ministry of Justice to seek the death penalty in federal cases where it can be applied, writes the AP News Agency.
Joe Biden converted the death penalty
27 states have the death penalty in the United States. Last year, 25 such executions were implemented in a few of the states.
Federal death penalty is unusual. 16 people have been executed after federal death penalty in the modern legal application, according to the organization Death Penalty Information Center. 13 of the cases were during Trump’s last term, the AP writes.
During his last time as president, Joe Biden converted the penalty for 37 of the 40 remaining persons sentenced to death at the federal level, to life imprisonment.
The three remaining prisoners are now Dylann Roof who murdered nine black church visitors in Charleston in 2015, the terror bomber Dzjochar Tsarnaev at the Boston Marathon and Robert Bowers who were sentenced to death for shooting 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh 2018.