NEW YORK – He accused to kill the president of a company Insurance Doctors last December in a street in New York, Luigi Mangioneit declared this Friday “not guilty” of the crime that can lead to the death penalty.
The 27 -year -old appeared this Friday at the Federal Court of the Southern District of Manhattan, dressed in beige uniform of the presidency, and the judge read him the four positions he is accused of. It declared “not guilty.”
Mangione is accused of killing Brian Thompson, president of UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest medical insurance companies in the United States, on the back, on December 4 in a New York street when he was going to participate in a conference of investors of the company.
At the beginning of April, the United States Secretary of Justice, Pamela Bondi, announced that she will seek the death penalty for Mangione, noting that “the murder was an act of political violence”, “premeditated already cold blood.” Donald Trump’s government left the moratorium declared by his predecessor Joe Biden on death sentences and executions in federal crimes.
Three judgments
The crime and the five -day flight of the alleged author shocked the Americans, most critical with private health insurance for their high costs and delays in giving access to their services.
Mangione, a 27 -year -old engineer of accommodated family, was captured in an McDonald’s in Altoona, a small town in the state of Pennsylvania.
It is accused in three different courts. In the Criminal Court of Manhattan, he already declared innocent of the 11 positions he faces, among them the murder as a “terrorist” act.
He is also accused by a Federal Court of murder and also of illegal possession of arms, a position that is also imputed to Pennsylvania.
