Luigi Mangione escapes federal death penalty after federal prosecutors decline to appeal judge's ruling

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Judge rules Luigi Mangione won't look decease penalty

Fox News' Nate Foy reports that a justice agreed to propulsion retired the astir superior complaint against Luigi Mangione and denied the defense's petition to suppress immoderate evidence. Legal exertion Kerri Urbahn discusses the judge's decisions.

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Luigi Mangione has escaped the decease penalty.

The accused killer's beingness volition beryllium spared aft national prosecutors said Friday they volition not entreaty a judge's ruling to quash superior punishment against him.

In a letter, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District said it accepts U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett‘s Jan. 30 determination to disregard a decease penalty-eligible execution complaint against Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson Dec. 4, 2024.

Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Supreme Court successful New York City

Luigi Mangione volition not look the decease punishment aft national prosecutors connected Friday said they won't entreaty a judge's ruling that dismissed a superior punishment complaint against the accused killer. (Curtis Means for DailyMail/Pool)

Despite not being tried connected execution charges, Mangione inactive faces 2 national stalking charges.

Jury enactment is scheduled to statesman Sept. 8. Opening statements volition statesman successful October.

Mangione, 27, besides faces beingness successful situation astatine a abstracted execution proceedings successful authorities tribunal slated to statesman successful June. He has pleaded not blameworthy to Thompson's killing.

To complaint Mangione with the national number of execution done usage of a gun, prosecutors request an underlying transgression of violence, Garnett said successful her January ruling.

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Photo of Brian Thompson was was the Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealthcare Unit until helium was changeable successful New York City successful December 2024

This 2017 record photograph of Brian Thompson was released via Businesswire erstwhile helium was named CEO of UnitedHealthcare Unit successful 2017. (Businesswire)

Garnett wrote that she was bound by Supreme Court precedent.

"Over the people of the past 2 decades oregon so, the Supreme Court has embarked upon a ineligible journey, explained herein, that present requires little courts to prosecute successful an investigation wholly divorced from the behaviour astatine contented and centered connected the hypothetically slightest superior behaviour that the charged transgression could perchance cover," she wrote.

Surveillance cameras recorded the slaying. Video footage showed Thompson walking down a Manhattan sidewalk extracurricular a edifice erstwhile a gunman approached him from down and opened fire.

Composite representation of Luigi Mangione with inset of the shooting of Brian Thompson (Fox News)

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Thompson sustained aggregate gunshot wounds and collapsed to the ground. The gunman fled and was aboriginal spotted making his mode uptown connected a bicycle.