NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione is due in court Tuesday as his lawyers push to have his state murder charges thrown out in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. They argue that the New York case and a parallel federal death penalty prosecution amount to double jeopardy.
Also to be decided: a trial date and whether the state case or federal case will go first.
Nah—the danger he represents is not as an individual but as an example. His fate needs to serve as a deterrent, and apparent random violence doesn’t have that effect.
Need to find a way for him to fall out of an 11th story window in a prison.
They can’t let him get to prison, and if they do, they have to make sure his cellmate plays along, or they arrange rewards for the group that takes him down.
If anyone in wherever he gets housed picks up what he did, he could end up leading the greatest prison revolt of all time.
Charasmatic intellectuals with an inherent distaste for authority are the most dangerous people for authoritarians.