Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday said the Justice Department would seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione for the December killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
“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,” Trump’s AG said in a statement.
Mangione has been charged in a federal complaint with murder through the use of a firearm, a death penalty-eligible crime, for the Dec. 4 incident outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown. He has not yet entered a plea to the charge as prosecutors have not yet filed an indictment, a charging document handed up by a grand jury.
On the state level, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has indicted Mangione on first-degree murder and terror offenses carrying the possibility of life without parole. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.
Attorneys for Mangione did not immediately comment.
This developing story will be updated.
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