The exchange occurs after the United States attorney general, Pam Bondi, said at the beginning of the month that he had ordered federal prosecutors to request the death penaltyalthough he has not been tried, and presented it as author of a “premeditated murder and cold blood.”
Mangione, 26, is accused of Kill Executive Brian Thompson on December 4 In the heart of Manhattan, after which he escaped and was arrested five days later in Altoona (Pennsylvania).
At the end of December, and after a media transfer to New York by helicopter, it was initially accused of several federal positions including murderwhich entails death penalty, but the formal imputation is in the hands of a large jury, according to its defense.
Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, then said that Justice “tries to kill” For political reasons, some arguments that he developed in a recent motion of about 40 pages to “prevent the government from looking for the death penalty” for its client.
Among other things, accuses the attorney general Bondi of “breaking the protocol” when giving that order “Arbitrary and political” on capital punishment -What responds to the campaign of President Donald Trump hard against the crime-, in addition to “contaminating the grand jury.”