The Trump administration, which has pledged to reprioritise capital punishment for serious criminals, is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.
Mr Mangione is accused of killing health insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York in December.
The Trump administration, which has pledged to reprioritise capital punishment for serious criminals, is seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.
Mr Mangione is accused of killing health insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York in December.
The “manifesto” doesn’t actually admit guilt, and it’s not been proven that he actually wrote it. Usually, a manifesto is released by the accused. Instead, the “police” “found” an “incriminating” “manifesto” “on” him when he was “arrested.” Which is to say it is entirely plausible that the letter was written by someone else and planted on the first guy they could find. Why else would the police leak it?
I thought I read that Luigi actually claimed the manifest as his own, but searching around does not bear that out.
Best I can tell, neither the police nor the major media outlets released it in full after the arrest or shortly thereafter, but it was found and shared by this guy later: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
Long story short, I still have no clue about the authenticity. One recent headline says Luigi’s legal team doesn’t want it admissible as evidence for the trial, for what that’s worth.
Luigi hasn’t denied it, but the guy who published it got a copy of the handwritten pages. That could only have come from the police, and the police made no effort to determine where the leak came from.
Leaks like this shouldn’t happen. It’s prejudicial and contaminates the evidence. If he was actually guilty, and we had a functioning justice system, this would ostensibly weaken the case against him. But we don’t have a functioning justice system, and all signs point to Luigi being railroaded.