Federal prosecutors officially file intent to seek death penalty against Luigi Mangione

Federal prosecutors person declared intent to question the decease punishment against Luigi Mangione, according to a tribunal papers filed connected Thursday evening.

The filing was obtained by Courthouse News Service connected Thursday. It comes a week aft Mangione, who is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was indicted connected national charges.

The tribunal papers argues that Mangione "intentionally" killed Thompson due to the fact that of his presumption arsenic the CEO of a wellness security company.

"Mangione elected to execution Thompson nether these circumstances to amplify an ideological message, maximize the visibility and interaction of the victim's murder, and to provoke broad-based absorption to the victim's industry," prosecutors say.

UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO MURDER SUSPECT LUIGI MANGIONE FACING NEW CHARGES IN NEW YORK

Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court for a presumption proceeding successful New York City, Feb. 21, 2025. Mangione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular a Manhattan edifice past year. (Curtis Means/Pool)

The papers besides claims that the 26-year-old presents "a aboriginal danger" due to the fact that helium expressed intent "to people an full industry, and rally governmental and societal absorption to that industry."

"[He engaged] successful an enactment of lethal violence; and helium took steps to evade instrumentality enforcement, fly New York City instantly aft the murder, and transverse authorities lines portion equipped with a privately manufactured firearm and silencer," the filing states.

Mangione was charged with stalking and murdering Thompson, utilizing interstate travel, physics communications, and a firearm, per a Southern District of New York filing past week. 

LUIGI MANGIONE'S DEFENSE FILES MOTION TO PRECLUDE DEATH PENALTY IN HIS FEDERAL CASE

Luigi Mangione, center, leaves Manhattan Criminal Court, Dec. 23, 2024, successful New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

On Apr. 1, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the DOJ would impulse a assemblage to question the decease penalty. 

"After cautious consideration, I person directed national prosecutors to question the decease punishment successful this lawsuit arsenic we transportation retired President [Donald] Trump's docket to halt convulsive transgression and Make America Safe Again," Bondi said.

Luigi Mangione, 26, is charged with first-degree execution successful New York successful transportation with the Dec. 4 execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (David Dee Delagado for Fox News Digital / Businesswire)

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Mangione has pleaded not blameworthy to each counts. He is besides being charged with offenses successful Pennsylvania, wherever helium was arrested astatine a McDonald’s aft a weeklong manhunt successful December. 

Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Maria Paronich contributed to this report.