New York:
A federal grand jury has convicted Luigi Mangion, who is accused of killing an executive of a United Health Group in New York last year, allowing prosecutors to allow prosecutors to death sentence in their case as per court fileing on Thursday.
26 -year -old Mangione is already facing allegations of state murder and arms in New York, which does not have a death sentence. The federal prosecution does not include new allegations, but makes bets to Mangione, who have requested not to be guilty for the state allegations.
Mangian lawyers did not immediately respond to the remarks requests. The US Attorney’s office in Manhattan refused to comment.
The prosecution means that a grand jury found a possible reason to kill Mars with murder, staring and offerings of firearms. The hearing in the federal case is scheduled on Friday in the Manhattan Federal Court.
Mangian has asked a judge to prevent federal prosecutors from demanding death sentence. In a filing last week, his lawyers said that the US Attorney General Palm Bandy announced a April 1 that prosecutors would seek the death penalty, “unexpectedly political” and violated the government protocol for the decisions of the death penalty.
If the bid fails and Mangian is convicted in the federal case, the jury will determine in a separate stage of the test whether the death penalty is recommended. Any such recommendation must be unanimous, and the judge will need to impose it.
Brian Thompson, CEO of the United Healths Insurance Division, was shot dead on 4 December on 4 December outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where the company was gathering for an investor conference.
Thompson’s Brazen murder and a five -day manhunt shut down Americans.
While public officials condemned the murder, some Americans happy Mangione, saying that they drew attention to the cost of US health care and the power of health insurers to refuse to pay for some treatments. Mangian is currently being held in a federal lockup in Brooklyn.
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