Luigi Mangione did not plead guilty on Friday on the federal allegation of health insurance Brian Thompson, the day after prosecutors formally stated that he was going to apply for the death penalty.
The 26-year-old Mangione wore a brown shirt in prison when he was led to a completed court room in Manhattan. Earlier, he did not confess to the separate set of charges of New York for the murder of Thompson, former general director of Unitedhealthare Unitedhealthy Unitedhealth Group.
He entered the accusation of accusation before the US District Judge Margaret Garnett.
American prosecutors formally told the court on Thursday that they were planning to apply for the death penalty for Mangione.
Justifying their decision, prosecutors wrote in their assembly that Mangione “was a future danger because he expressed his intention to aim at the entire industry and gathered political and social opposition to this industry, engaging in the act of mortal violence.”
At the beginning of this month, the US PAM Bondi prosecutor announced that the Department of Justice would be looking for Mangione's death. The court submitted on Thursday by the Office of the Prosecutor in Manhattan formalizes the intentions of prosecutors to impose a death penalty.
Mangione lawyers stated that the announcement of Bondi of April 1 was “undeniably political” and violated government reports regarding the death penalty decisions.
If Mangione is convicted of a federal case, the jury will determine in a separate phase of the trial or recommend the death penalty. All such recommendations must be unanimous, and the judge would be obliged to apply them.
CEO of Unitedhealth Group, Andrew Witta, mourned the murder of director Brian Thompson and said that he understood public frustrations with a “defective” American health care system on Friday, in the opinion of New York Times. It was his first public commentary since Thompson, the general director of United Health Insurance Unit, was shot last week.
Thompson was shot on December 4 in front of the hotel at Midtown Manhattan, where the company gathered at an investor conference. The insolent murder and the following five -day captivated Americans.
Police officers in Altooon, Pa., Found mangions with a 9-mm pistol and silencer, clothing that matched the clothing worn by the Thompson shooter in monitoring materials and a notebook describing the intention to “develop” the general director of the insurance company, in accordance with the court application.
Some Americans cheered Mangione, who was not known as a client or Unitedhealth client, saying that he paid attention to high health care costs and the strength of health insurers to refuse to pay for some treatments.
Mangione takes place at Federal Lockup, Brooklyn.
A crowd of people, many supporters, came to the court in New York, where Luigi Mangione did not plead guilty of the murder and first degree terrorism after the death of the general director of Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson.
The decision to grant the death penalty revives the practice observed in the first administration of Donald Trump, when 13 executions were carried out between July 2020 and January 2021.
Earlier, 17-year-old Pause took place in the federal executions of prisoners, without any presidency of Barack Obama or during the second term of George W. Bush.
Prosecutor General Merrick Garland in administration Joe Biden established a moratorium on the subject of federal executions in 2021 awaiting review of procedures, although two cases of death penalty with origin that overtook the presidency of Biden, permanent – one of them included an anti -Semitic mass, which murdered 11 people in Pittsburgh Synagogue in 2018.
The Department of Justice at Garland refused to fulfill the death penalty in other mass killings, including a revolverist motivated by hatred of immigrants who killed 23 people at Walmart in El Paso, Texas in 2019. This bandit, Patrick Crusius, He was sentenced to life imprisonment this week.