New Analysis: Why the Death Penalty is Off the Table for Luigi Mangione

New Analysis: Why the Death Penalty is Off the Table for Luigi Mangione

On January 30, a fed­er­al judge ruled that Luigi Mangione can­not face the death penal­ty in his upcom­ing tri­al for the mur­der of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. She dis­missed two counts from his fed­er­al indict­ment, one of which car­ried the death penal­ty as a poten­tial sen­tence. Described by *The New York Times*as ​“a sig­nif­i­cant blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to revive the use of the death penal­ty in fed­er­al c…