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US Attorney-General orders prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione (www.abc.net.au)
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The Trump administration, which has pledged to reprioritise capital punishment for serious criminals, is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.

Mr Mangione is accused of killing health insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York in December.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought I read that Luigi actually claimed the manifest as his own, but searching around does not bear that out.

Best I can tell, neither the police nor the major media outlets released it in full after the arrest or shortly thereafter, but it was found and shared by this guy later: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Long story short, I still have no clue about the authenticity. One recent headline says Luigi's legal team doesn't want it admissible as evidence for the trial, for what that's worth.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Luigi hasn't denied it, but the guy who published it got a copy of the handwritten pages. That could only have come from the police, and the police made no effort to determine where the leak came from.

Leaks like this shouldn't happen. It's prejudicial and contaminates the evidence. If he was actually guilty, and we had a functioning justice system, this would ostensibly weaken the case against him. But we don't have a functioning justice system, and all signs point to Luigi being railroaded.