US Attorney General Pamela Bondi on Tuesday (April 1) directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division Brian Thompson in New York last year.
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00:00U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, on Tuesday, directed federal prosecutors to seek the death
00:08penalty for Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealth Group Insurance Division CEO
00:14Brian Thompson in New York last year.
00:17Mangione's lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, called the decision barbaric, stating that
00:23while claiming to protect against murder, the federal government is pursuing premeditated
00:28state-sponsored murder of her client.
00:31Twenty-six-year-old Mangione pleaded not guilty to New York state charges of murder as an
00:36act of terrorism and weapons offenses.
00:39If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
00:43He also faces a parallel federal indictment in Manhattan federal court for Thompson's
00:48killing.
00:49Mangione has yet to enter a plea to the federal charges.
00:53If convicted in the federal case, a jury would decide in a separate phase whether to
00:57recommend the death penalty.
01:00The recommendation must be unanimous, and the judge would be required to impose it.