NEW YORK/WASHINGTON:  , US Attorney General Pamela Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the person accused of , shooting and killing , Brian Thompson, the , CEO of UnitedHealth Group’s healthcare sector, in , New York , next month.
In a statement, Mangione’s attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo called the choice to seek the death penalty “barbaric”.
” While claiming to protect against death, the federal government moves to undertake the pre-meditated, state-sponsored crime of Luigi”, Friedman Agnifilo said.
Mangione,  , 26,  , has pleaded , no guilty , to New York state claims of crime as an act of terrorism and weapons offenses. He may experience life in prison without parole if convicted in , that situation. New York does not have the death sentence for state fees.
Mangione faces a , horizontal national indictment , in Manhattan federal prosecutor over Thompson’s shooting. He may face the death penalty if convicted in that case. He has not yet been asked to enter a petition to the national costs.
If Mangione is convicted in the national situation, the judge may decide in a distinct stage of the test whether to suggest the death sentence. Any for recommendation may be majority, and the determine would be required to implement it.
Thompson was shot dead on Dec 4 outside a Midtown Manhattan resort, where the business was gathering for an investor meeting.
” Luigi Mangione’s death of Brian Thompson- an honest man and father of two younger kids- was a deliberate, cold-blooded death that frightened America”, Bondi said in a speech.