Why Luigi Mangione "Beat The Death Penalty"

Will Luigi Mangione be executed? The federal judge in the trial of Luigi Mangione has declared that the stalking charges and other aggravating factors do not amount to a capital offence under current federal law. District Judge Margaret Garnett came to this conclusion during a hearing on January 30, 2026, in which she dismissed the most serious charges for the following reasons: Ideologically motivated murders do not constitute terrorism, especially under New York State law, where the murder took place The prosecution failed to prove a wider conspiracy of violence that went beyond the scope of what actually happened — a single murder Travelling through interstate, and using electronic communications for the purpose of stalking the victim did not in itself constitute the “crime of violence” needed to secure the capital offence elements It is also quite suitable that Luigi Mangione would not be executed, regardless of one’s personal opinion on the circumstances of the case, seeing as former President Joe Biden had himself commuted the sentences of all but three federal death row inmates — Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, and Dzhokar Tsarnaev — shortly before Christmas 2024. Reversing this trend and imposing the death penalty on a defendant over a gunshot-related homicide against a single victim for no other reason than because the person was wealthy, powerful, and well-known among the elites of society, would serve as even more evidence of justice inequality among the millions who have already long become disillusioned by the legal system. Earlier this week, a reported supporter of Luigi Mangione who is known as a Minnesotan by the name of Mark Anderson, was himself arrested and detained when he tried to break into his cell, posing as an FBI agent, so that he could set his idol free. While the attempt failed, I am certain he now feels relieved at the news that Brian Thompson’s alleged killer will never have to face lethal injection over the incident, though the two of them may or may not grow old behind bars together, depending on which way the jury goes. This means that while the terrorism charges have been effectively dropped against Luigi Mangione, the non-capital charges at both the federal level, as well as the murder charge in New York — where the death penalty was struck down as unconstitutional in 2004 — remain in place, and will be the deciding factor in whether or not the social vigilante/assassin of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson walks away a free man or spends the remaining days of his life behind bars when the starting date of the first trial takes place on October 13, 2026. 17.6K views View 193 upvotes View 7 shares 1 of 2 answers