The Justice Department was pressed to indict Luigi Mangione on federal charges so that the possibility of the death penalty might discourage copycats, Judge Andrew Napolitano told Newsmax on Tuesday.
Mangione was accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month. On Monday, he pleaded not guilty to murder and terror charges in a state case that will run parallel to his federal prosecution.
Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst, explained to “Wake Up America” that “the heathcare professional community pressured the Justice Department to indict him in the federal system so that he would be exposed to the death penalty as a message … to all these crazy kids who are following him as if he is a hero.”
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