00:00U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, on Tuesday, directed federal prosecutors to seek the death
00:08penalty for Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealth Group Insurance Division CEO
00:14Brian Thompson in New York last year.
00:17Mangione's lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, called the decision barbaric, stating that
00:23while claiming to protect against murder, the federal government is pursuing premeditated
00:28state-sponsored murder of her client.
00:31Twenty-six-year-old Mangione pleaded not guilty to New York state charges of murder as an
00:36act of terrorism and weapons offenses.
00:39If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
00:43He also faces a parallel federal indictment in Manhattan federal court for Thompson's
00:48killing.
00:49Mangione has yet to enter a plea to the federal charges.
00:53If convicted in the federal case, a jury would decide in a separate phase whether to
00:57recommend the death penalty.
01:00The recommendation must be unanimous, and the judge would be required to impose it.
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