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| US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione | US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione |
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| Watch: Luigi Mangione is arraigned in New York earlier this year | |
| US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. | |
| Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the penalty for the "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination". | |
| Mr Thompson was shot dead outside a hotel in New York on 4 December. Police arrested Mr Mangione, 26, weeks later in Pennsylvania after a nationwide manhunt. | Mr Thompson was shot dead outside a hotel in New York on 4 December. Police arrested Mr Mangione, 26, weeks later in Pennsylvania after a nationwide manhunt. |
| He has pleaded not guilty to state charges, and has yet to enter a plea for separate federal charges. He is currently awaiting trial in a New York federal prison. | |
| In the press release, Bondi said Mr Thompson's murder "was an act of political violence" and that it "may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons" nearby. | |
| Investigators say Mr Mangione was motivated to kill Mr Thompson, 50, because of anger with US healthcare insurance companies. | |
| Mr Mangione is facing 11 state criminal counts in New York, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism. | |
| If convicted of all the counts, he would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. | |
| Federal prosecutors have also separately charged Mr Mangione for using a firearm to commit murder and interstate stalking resulting in death. These charges make him eligible for the death penalty. | |
| He has yet to enter a plea on those charges. | |
| Prosecutors have said the federal and state cases will move forward parallel with one another. |