35 h. ago The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment?

Even if he’s convicted, a jury might decide on a lesser punishment for Luigi Mangione in the trial’s penalty phaseIt was a decision that everyone expected to come. But it still had all the drama of a made-for-television legal show: would the government seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering a top health insurance executive on a Manhattan street?The answer came last week: yes. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Luigi Mangione faces death penalty if found guilty of healthcare CEO murder

Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione

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6 d. ago US says it will seek death penalty for Mangione in UnitedHealthcare killing

Case involving murder of Brain Thompson has unleashed fraught debates over country’s for-profit healthcare

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6 d. ago Pam Bondi seeks death penalty for Luigi Mangione in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Bondi is asking federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in Mangione’s case

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6 d. ago US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione over fatal shooting of CEO

Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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6 d. ago Luigi Mangione faces ULTIMATE punishment for 'murdering' health CEO Brian Thompson, AG Pam Bondi says

Luigi Mangione will face the death penalty if convicted of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged on Tuesday.

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6 d. ago Luigi Mangione faces death penalty for murder of CEO and 'innocent father'

Luigi Mangione is accused of killing healthcare boss Brian Thompson and could now be given the death penalty as a result of the incidentin New York on December 4

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6 d. ago Prosecutors directed to seek death penalty against UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4

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7 d. ago Georgia set to ease strict rules for proving intellectual disability in death penalty cases

A Georgia bill that would ease the state's tough death penalty law is on track to become law

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1 week ago Alleged assassin Luigi Mangione's surprising act of kindness after being arrested inside a McDonalds

Alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione's act of kindness is revealed after he was arrested in a McDonalds in December.

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1 week ago Mexican drug lord charged with killing DEA agent could face death penalty

Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling case that includes the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent

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1 week ago Racist gunman could avoid death penalty for Walmart massacre

Patrick Crusius has been offered a plea deal after killing 23

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1 week ago LA district attorney allows prosecutors to seek death penalty again

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in place by his predecessor

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1 week ago Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty

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1 week ago Accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO asks for laptop in jail

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers want computer for him to review case materials in deadly shooting of Brian ThompsonThe accused killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, is asking for a laptop in jail, but just for legal purposes – not for communicating with anyone – as he awaits trial.In a court filing made public late on Monday, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers proposed that he get a laptop configured solely to let him view a vast amount of documents, video and other material in the case surrounding Thompson’s deadly shooting on 4 December. Similar limited-laptop provisions have been made for some other defendants in the federal lockup where Mangione is being held. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Arizona’s execution pitted experts against politicians. Experts lost | Austin Sarat

The governor dismissed an ex-judge studying the death penalty in the state and failed to heed a leading voice on the matter. It’s no surpriseOn Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for “kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert”.Gunches’s case was unusual in many ways, not least that he stopped his legal appeals and volunteered to be executed, then changed his mind before changing it again. His execution was scheduled to be carried out almost two years ago. It was put on hold when the Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, commissioned an independent review of the state’s death penalty procedures after a series of botched executions. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby has been executed

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, March 20, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death penalty

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2 w. ago Fox anchor invents wild hypothetical to ask White House spox about Tesla vandals and death penalty

Trump administration officials and allies have threatened to harshly punish those who are protesting Tesla through acts of violence

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2 w. ago Man charged in daylong Memphis shooting rampage is no longer serving as his own lawyer

A Tennessee man who faces the death penalty if convicted of killing three people in a daylong series of shootings in 2022 has changed course and decided not to serve as his own lawyer in the case

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3 w. ago South Carolina schedules its fifth execution in seven months

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since the state resumed the death penalty in September

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