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Daniel Keane

US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione over fatal shooting of CEO

Luigi Mangione. Mangione, 26, was arrested December 9 over the targeted killing of a health insurance executive on the streets of New York, - (Pennsylvania Department of Corre)

US Attorney General Pamela Bondi has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing of healthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York last year.

Thompson, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot dead on December 4 outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, where the company was gathering for an investor conference.

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