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A great federal jury charged Luigi Mangione, accused of the murder of a manager of Unitedhealth Group
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Mangione, 26, is already accused of murder and possession of weapons on the site in New York, where the death penalty does not exist. The federal accusation act does not include new charges but increases the issues for Mangione, who pleaded not guilty to the accusations of the state.
Mangione lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comments. The United States prosecutor’s office in Manhattan has refused to comment.
The accusation act means that a great jury has found a probable cause to charge mangione of murder, harassment and offense on firearms. A hearing in the federal affair is scheduled for Friday at the Manhattan Federal Court.
Mangione asked a judge () to prevent federal prosecutors from requiring the death penalty. In a document tabled last week, his lawyers said that the announcement made on April 1 by the United States Prosecutor general, Pam Bondi, according to which the demand for the death penalty, was “resolutely political” and violated government protocols relating to decisions in matters of death.
If this offer fails and Mangione is found guilty in the federal case, the jury will determine, in a separate phase of the trial, if it must recommend the death penalty. This recommendation must be unanimous and the judge will be required to apply it.
Brian Thompson, director general who died of the insurance division of Unitedhealth, was shot dead on December 4 outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where the company was gathered for an investor conference.
Thompson’s cheeky murder and five -day man hunting that followed the Americans.
While the public authorities have condemned the assassination, some Americans have acclaimed Mangione, saying that he had drawn attention to the high costs of Health care in the United States and the power that insurers have to refuse to pay certain treatments. Mangione is currently detained in a federal prison in Brooklyn.
