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Luigi Mangione could face death penalty in CEO slaying. How rare are these federal cases?
Luigi Mangione, accused of killing health care CEO Brian Thompson, could face the death penalty. Experts say Mangione's case involves potential aggravating factors like alleged premeditation and ...
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Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione. Here's what to know about federal executions.
Federal prosecutors were directed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi this week to pursue the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson ...
NPR1mon
Trump administration's call for the death penalty for Luigi Mangione signals a larger shift
President Trump's push for more federal and state executions marks a new chapter in the shifting politics of the death penalty. The Trump administration wants to put Luigi Mangione to death for ...
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Pam Bondi says she received death threats for seeking death penalty against Luigi Mangione
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Pam Bondi said Sunday she has received death threats for instructing the federal government to pursue the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man ...
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Luigi Mangione may receive death penalty, while white supremacist who killed 23 at Texas Walmart won't
After news broke in early April 2025 that the U.S. Department of Justice would direct prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with killing UnitedHealthcare ...
Los Angeles Times1mon
Bringing the death penalty back to L.A. is politics and hubris, not justice
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman is reversing the policy of his predecessor so prosecutors can once again consider pursuing the death penalty in certain ‘exceedingly rare’ types of ...
Snopes.com1mon
At least 4 school shooters sentenced to death since 1940, but not one has yet been executed
Snopes' research found at least four perpetrators of school shootings have been sentenced to death since 1940. Two of those sentences were later commuted to life in prison and the other two ...
New York Post22d
Feds to seek death penalty for federal inmate charged with murdering his cellmate
OKLAHOMA CITY — Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.
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Opinion: Finally, a legal victory against the death penalty
Kansas District Court Judge Bill Klapper is no one’s idea of a liberal anti-death penalty activist, having been originally appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench by Gov. Sam Brownback (R ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal1mon
Death penalty concerns raised in Las Vegas MS-13 case
Attorneys raised concerns that defendants in a federal MS-13 case could face the death penalty at a hearing Tuesday after federal prosecutors in an unrelated Reno case said they would not seek ...
The State1mon
End the death penalty. We need moral leadership and these public safety policies instead | Opinion
Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, speaks at the South Carolina State House and asks Gov. Henry McMaster to grant clemency to ...
The Hill1mon
Finally, a legal victory against the death penalty
Kansas District Court Judge Bill Klapper is no one’s idea of a liberal anti-death penalty activist, having been originally appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench by Gov. Sam Brownback (R ...