On Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for accused murderer Luigi Mangione. A press release from the Department of Justice announced the decision and laid out AG Bondi’s reasoning.
“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — 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 as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”
- As alleged, Luigi Mangione stalked and murdered UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024. The murder was an act of political violence. Mangione’s actions involved substantial planning and premeditation and because the murder took place in public with bystanders nearby, may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons.
- Following federal murder charges handed down on Dec. 19, 2024, Attorney General Bondi has now directed Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky to seek the death penalty in this case.
- This is in line with Attorney General Bondi’s Day One Memo as Attorney General entitled
Reviving The Federal Death Penalty And Lifting The Moratorium On Federal Executions
The AG also announced the decision on X.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione
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— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) April 1, 2025
The death penalty has been hotly debated in the United States for decades.
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We should note that the Bill of Rights specifically allows for the death penalty; the Fifth Amendment states in part:
(No person) shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
The implication here is that a person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property with due process of law.
Proponents of the death penalty argue that it is the only punishment to fit some crimes, and one could make an argument that the crime Luigi Mangione is on trial for – a premeditated, carefully planned assassination of someone with no connection to the killer – would fit that mold. Opponents of the death penalty point out that actually executing someone, even a convicted assassin, can drag on for decades and is a waste of taxpayers’ money, as opposed to just dropping the convicted killer into a prison for life with no possibility of parole. And, of course, some oppose the death penalty on moral grounds, stating that the state has no moral authority to invoke that ultimate penalty.
And, of course, there is the argument that some people, convicted of capital crimes, have later proved to be wrongfully convicted, and there’s another con; you can be released from prison, but you cannot be released from death.
Luigi Mangione’s case seems pretty straightforward. I’m not an attorney, nor do I play one on television, but to this observer, it seems pretty open and shut. And if any accused murderer warranted that ultimate penalty, it would be the man who stalked, planned, prepared, and assassinated an innocent man – and an execution may deter any of the various nuts who are lionizing this murderer. Or it may encourage them to follow Mangione in what they perceive as some kind of martyrdom.
It’s a complicated issue. But one thing is mortally certain: One way or another, Brian Thompson’s murderer is going to get what he has coming to him.
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