Luigi Mangione to face death penalty if convicted of killing United Healthcare CEO as DOJ labels him a future danger

The Justice Department filed a formal notice that they intend to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Mangione is accused of gunning down Thompson last December outside of a Midtown Manhattan hotel before he allegedly escaped the crime scene by foot, bike, cab, and bus to Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was arrested nearly a week later, marking the end of a six-day manhunt that gripped the nation.

The Ivy League graduate has been federally charged with murder through use of a firearm, two counts of stalking and a firearms offense.

On Thursday, one day before Mangione is set to be arraigned in federal court in Manhattan, government attorneys filed a formal notice that they are planning to seek a death sentence for the murder through use of a firearm charge.

Mangione “presents a future danger because he expressed intent to target an entire industry, and rally political and social

opposition to that industry, by engaging in an act of lethal violence,” the government wrote in the Thursday filing.

He also faces 11 criminal counts in New York, including murder as an act of terrorism, in connection with the December 4 killing; he has pleaded not guilty. In Pennsylvania, he faces forgery and firearms charges. He has not yet made a plea in the state.

The formal notice of intent comes weeks after Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced on April 1 that she directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case.

“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again,” Bondi wrote.