Luigi Mandjion refused to accept the accusation of the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson. On the other hand, prosecutors officially announced their intention to demand a death penalty against him.
The 26 -year -old Manjion stood with his lawyers during the defense, and the regional judge of the United States Margaret Garnett leaned toward the microphone, asking if he understood the indictment and accusations against him.
“Yes,” Mangiona said. When he was asked how he wants to protect his defense, he simply said: “I am innocent,” he said.
The official process, during which the allegations of murder, which was believed, was committed in December, attracted dozens of people, including former Army analyst Chelsea Manning, who was serving seven years of prison for “secret diplomatic documents”.
Mandjion has been in a federal prison in Brooklyn since his arrest.
Late on Thursday evening, federal prosecutors made the necessary notification of their intention to ask for the death penalty.
This step occurred a few weeks after the U.S. chief prosecutor Pam Bondi announced that he would send federal prosecutors to ask the death penalty for an event that he called “political violence” and “pre -planned, cold murder”, which was shocked by America.
The Ministry of Justice first announced that President Donald Trump had taken office on January 20 and promised to restart the federal executions that stopped during the Joe Biden administration.
Lawyers Mangione claimed that Bondi’s statement was a “political game”, which violated the great jury and deprived Mangion of the right to a constitutional fair trial.
Lawyers tried to prevent the prosecutors to demand the death penalty.
The federal charge against Mangion includes the charges of “murder using firearms”, which can be death.
Manjion, a graduate of the Poyshch League from one of the famous families of real estate agents of Maryland, was faced with a 50 -year -old Thompson, who came to the annual conference of the UnitedDhealthcare investors on December 4 in front of the hotel in Manhattan.
The accusations of murder in the state foresee the greatest life imprisonment.
In the frames of the security chamber, the striker in the mask hit Thompson from behind.
The five -day investigation, which led to the arrest of Mangion after the murder, shocked the business world. Some health insurers deleted photos of their managers from their sites and handed over online acts.
At the same time, those who criticized the medical insurance sector began to support Mangion to reject the insurance sphere and express disappointments about difficult medical accounts.
Mangiona was arrested on December 9 in Altun, Pennsylvania, about 370 kilometers west of New York, and was taken to Manhattan with an airplane.