Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is set to return to a New York City courtroom on Friday for a brief appearance in his state murder case.

Summary

Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is set to appear in a New York courtroom Friday for a hearing on evidence exchange and a potential trial date.

He faces state murder charges with a terrorism enhancement, carrying a life sentence without parole.

Mangione also faces federal charges, including one with a potential death penalty, and separate charges in Pennsylvania. His defense claims political bias in the case.

In a statement, Mangione thanked supporters for their letters from across the country and the world.

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    721·
    5 months ago

    Terrorism, according to the United Nations General Assembly:

    Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.

    Luigi certainly didn’t bring the public into a state of terror, if anything quite the opposite - so I suppose the real question is do we class Health Insurance Executives politically as a group of people to incite terror onto?

    I’d argue that a group of people who would happily sign away someone’s life if it meant them getting richer don’t deserve that kind of recognition, but I’d bet the courts will say yes because their rich friends want an example made of him.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      271·
      5 months ago

      a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes

      A group such as healthcare CEOs, and the wealthy in general?

      Not that I think he did it. But terrorism doesn’t have to be directed at the public at large.

      • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        New York state terrorism law is this:

        S 490.25 Crime of terrorism.

        1. A person is guilty of a crime of terrorism when, with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she commits a specified offense.

        https://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article490.php#p490.25

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      5 months ago

      I dont feel terror or endangered by CEO killing vigilantes (as long as they have good aim and dont cause collateral damage). I’m sure the rest of the general public also feels safer without these CEO psycopaths walking around.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Corporations are people here and they see this as terrorism because their managers do.

      Whether a jury will sign off on the Citizens United view of the public as corporate citizens depends on how willing avg jurists are to rationalize the fiction.