Attorney General Pam Bondy has ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the case against Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Bondy said Tuesday that Thompson's murder was “a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
“After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case when I carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crimes and make America safe again,” she said.
US lawyer Matthew Podolski seeks the death penalty for the case.
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Luigi Mangione will appear at Manhattan Crown Court on Friday, February 21, 2025 for a status hearing in New York City. Magnione has been accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Manhattan Hotel last year. (Curtis is the means/pool)
In a statement, Mangion's New York defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said the move to seek the death penalty was “wild bar.”
“Their decision to enforce Luigi is political and opposes local federal prosecutors, laws and recommendations of historical precedents. The federal government commits a murder sponsored by Luigi's pre-buried state, while insisting on protection from murder.
“We are ready to fight these federal accusations, the New York State accusations, the Pennsylvania State accusations, and anything they want to build up on Luigi.”
Agnifilo argued that Mangion was “engaged in a high stakes game of tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors, except that the trophy is the life of a young man.”
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on December 4th, 2024 in New York City. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)
Mangion, a 2020 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Shoot Thompson and die Outside the Manhattan Hotel on December 4th, 2024.
He faces numerous state and federal charges, including first-degree murder “to promote terrorist acts.” He pleaded not guilty to the state's charges, but he has not yet received a federal petition.
Thompson, a 50-year-old husband and father of two from Minnesota, was at the New York City hotel for an investor meeting when guns were fired from behind on the sidewalk.
Thompson joined the UnitedHealth Group in 2004 and played a variety of leadership roles throughout his career. He served as Chief Financial Officer for several businesses in the company, including employers and individuals, communities and states. Medicare and retirement Department.
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Thompson also served as the employer and financial manager for individual businesses at UnitedHealthcare and Director of Corporate Development.
On March 14, 2025, attorney general Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy visited the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. to visit the Department of Justice. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)
The federal government has been executed by 16 people since 2001, starting with the death of the Oklahoma City bomber, according to Justice Department records. Timothy McVay And eight days later, American drug trafficker Juan Raul Garza killed two men and executed a third of them himself.
In particular, 13 of these executions came during President Trump's first term in office.
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Currently, there are 40 federal prisoners in the death penalty line. Death Penalty Information CenterAnd the list includes not only Dylan Roof, who massacred nine parishioners at South Carolina Church, but also the surviving Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mangione's lawyer.
Michael Ruiz of Fox News contributed to this report.
