US EditionLuigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules
- On Friday, January 30, 2026, U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett dismissed the death-eligible counts from Luigi Mangione's indictment, ruling he will not face the death penalty if convicted.
- The judge found that prosecutors relied on stalking charges which did not meet the legal definition of a crime of violence, ruling after oral arguments earlier this month.
- Court records show that during the arrest, police found a loaded magazine wrapped in underwear inside Mangione's backpack, along with a notebook describing `wack` of an insurance executive, and surveillance footage of a masked shooter; he was arrested five days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
- The ruling dealt a setback to federal prosecutors in Manhattan after Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered them last April to seek the death penalty, and Garnett gave prosecutors 30 days to notify any appeal plans.
- Mangione has pleaded not guilty and federal jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 8, while the Manhattan district attorney's office urged a July 1 start for the state trial.
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The trial would be before a jury, and prosecutors want to start the process as early as July.
Judge bars U.S. prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione
U.S. Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
A US federal judge dismissed two of the four charges against the 27-year-old man, including murder with a firearm.
Luigi M. is said to have shot an insurance chief. However, a federal judge has now dropped two charges – among other things for deliberate murder. M. threatens a life sentence at most.
A federal judge rejected the two counts on which the prosecution had requested the death penalty: the murder and the use of a gun equipped with a silencer.
He's accused of the murder of the CEO of United HealthCare.
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