Taylor Lorenz hardest hit. Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the street in midtown Manhattan back in December, now faces the death penalty in federal court. Reuters reports,
A federal grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year, allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty in his case, according to court filings on Thursday.
Mangione, 26, is already facing state murder and weapons charges in New York, which does not have the death penalty. The federal indictment does not include new charges but raises the stakes for Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty to the state charges.
I think we can safely assume that these most recent developments would not have occurred in a Kamala Harris Administration.
I mentioned earlier in the week how a different 26-year-old took a loaded .38 to the suburban Minneapolis headquarters of United Healthcare. Fortunately, thanks to the diligent efforts of the FBI and the local police, that incident ended without casualties. The troubled young man faces four state felony counts arising from the incident, but it could have been much worse.
In this part of Minnesota, the only way to ensure that criminals see prison time is for the Feds to undertake the prosecution. Perhaps that is also the case in Manhattan. Reuters again,
While public officials condemned the killing, some Americans have cheered Mangione, saying he drew attention to steep U.S. healthcare costs and the power of health insurers to refuse payment for some treatments. Mangione is currently being held in federal lockup in Brooklyn.
“Some Americans.” When you make a hero out of a cold-blooded killer (allegedly) you can count on other troubled young souls being out there, listening.
When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.
