A Manhattan federal judge ruled that prosecutors would not be able to seek the death penalty at the trial of Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old man accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive in 2024.
The judge,
Margaret Garnett of Federal District Court, said the case would still proceed
to trial on other counts, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison
without parole, in the killing of the executive, Brian Thompson.
Judge
Garnett said in her opinion that two stalking charges against Mr. Mangione, one
of which carried a maximum sentence of death, did not meet the legal definition
of a crime of violence, and had to be dismissed.
“Consequently,"
the judge wrote, “the chief practical effect of the legal infirmities” of the
two counts and the court’s decision that they must be dismissed “is solely to
foreclose the death penalty as an available punishment.”
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