US Justice Department to seek the death penalty for Mangione

[orangecrush]

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday the Justice Department will seek the death penalty for accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione.

Bondi said she will direct the interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew Podolsky, to seek the death penalty in the case if Mangione is convicted on capital murder charges.

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Mangione’s attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo has said she was in discussions with the Justice Department over the decision. Agnifilo said Tuesday that the Justice Department’s push for the death penalty shows the DOJ has “moved from the dysfunctional to the barbaric.”

“Their decision to execute Luigi is political and goes against the recommendation of the local federal prosecutors, the law, and historical precedent,” Agnifilo said in a statement. “While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi. By doing this, they are defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry that continues to terrorize the American people.”

Bondi echoed Trump’s executive order when she took office in early February, issuing a memorandum denouncing Biden’s commutations. They had, she wrote, “severely undermined the rule of law” and “betrayed our sacred duty and broke our promise to achieve justice.”

“This shameful era ends today,” Bondi wrote, announcing the Justice Department would lift a moratorium on federal executions put in place during the Biden administration. “Going forward, the Department of Justice will once again act as the law demands –– including by seeking death sentences in appropriate cases and swiftly implementing those sentences in accordance with the law.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/death-penalty-doj-luigi-mangione/index.html

[SharonClark]

1. Everyone in the Trump administration talks like tough guys

Tough and stupid.

Such a strategy could easily backfire with a jury.

[SheltieLover]

2. RIdiculous, imo

[orangecrush]

3. Corrupt to their rotten core

[SheltieLover]

5. Yes they are & will do anything to protect the status quo: fucking over consumers

Personally, I hope the jury nullifies.

[Norrrm]

4. What horrible crime did he commit? Damage a Tesla?

[mn9driver]

6. Scaring the millionaire-billionaire class is always a death penalty offense.

Killing ordinary, little people, not so much.