Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi She said on Tuesday that she ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi MangionWho is accused of murder UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO Brian Thompson in New York City In December.

“The killing of Luigi manganese of Brian Thompson-an innocent man and a father of two young children-was a deliberate assassination in cold blood that shocked America,” Bondi said in A. statement Confiscate Ministry of Justice.

“After looking carefully, I directed the federal prosecutors to obtain the death penalty in this case, as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and make America safe again,” the prosecutor said.

Karen Agnevilo, a manganese lawyer, condemned Bondi’s decision.

“By seeking the killing of Luigi Manjion, the Ministry of Justice has moved from the defect to barbarism,” Affilo said in a statement.

The lawyer said, “Their decision to implement Luigi political and contradicts the recommendation from local federal prosecutors, law and historical race,” the lawyer said.

“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government is moving to commit the state sponsored by Luigi,” said Ajfello.

“By doing this, they are defending the broken and immoral health care industry and the fighting that still intimidate the American people.”

Bondi’s decision came more than two months after the president Donald TrumpOn his first day in office, an executive order called for the restoration of the federal death penalty. This prosecutor was directed to “pursuing the death penalty for all severity crimes that require their use.”

Under the administration of Biden, the Ministry of Justice imposed an end to the federal executions in mid -2011.

In February, the American boycott judge, Catherine Parker, appointed a lawyer and a death expert in the legal manganese team at the request of federal defenders in New York, an independent organization representing the destitute defendants.

Manageun, 26, is tried at the American Provincial Court in Manhattan for federal crimes, including killing, The chase is concerned, and the firearms are concerned with the killing of Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel in central Manhattan on December 4.

Thompson, whose company is the largest motivation for health insurance benefits in the United States, went to the hotel to attend an investor meeting for his father, UNITEDHELHELTH Group.

Mangeion was arrested five days later in McDonald’s in Altona, Pennsylvania, where the police found him in the Misda, Kamat Kamtai, ammunition, fake and American passport.

Mangeion, who is being held without a guarantee, did not enter a call in federal issues.

He admitted that he was not guilty of killing and other charges in Manhattan Supreme CourtAnd the New York State Court at the trial level. He faces the maximum possible penalty for life without conditional release in this case if convicted. New York State has no death penalty.

In its statement on Tuesday, the Ministry of Justice said that “the killing of Thompson was a act of political violence.”

“The actions of manganese involve significant planning and major planning, and because the crime that occurred in public places with nearby passers -by, may have pose a major risk to the death of additional people,” the statement said.

The department previously said that a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania intends to kill Thompson to raise a public discussion on the health care industry.

“We are ready to fight these federal charges, which were brought by the Ministry of Justice -free, as well as New York State, the charge of Pennsylvania, and anything else they want to accumulate on Luigi,” Agnifilo said in its statement.

“This is a corrupt network of government defects and one pressure. Luigi was arrested in a high -risk game of the war rope between federal prosecutors, except for the cup, the life of a young man,” said Evvililo.

Thirteen out of 16 people have been executed by the federal government since the federal death penalty in 1988 over the past seven months of Trump’s first state in office, according to what he said. The death penalty center.

Other three executions were carried out in 2001 and 2003, during the first term of President George W. Bush.

Lawyer General Merik Garland imposed in July 2021 Endowment In federal executions, pending a review of the Ministry of Justice policies and procedures, including “the risk of pain and suffering associated with the use of Bentoparbital”, a drug used in deadly executions.

The former president Joe Biden On December 23, the death penalty was reduced for all of them, except for three out of 40 people in the Federal Execution.