Luigi Mangione Could Escape Death Penalty Because of Trump’s Comments on Fox News and Tweets by DOJ Employees
https://www.mediaite.com/crime/luigi-mangione-could-escape-death-penalty-because-of-trumps-comments-on-fox-news-and-tweets-by-doj-employees/
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excral@feddit.org · 26 pts · 346d
Can somebody explain to me how the death penalty would even be on the table, when he is trialled in New York? I thought the death penalty had been abolished there for almost two decades.
forrgott@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 346d
This is about the federal trial. They sure him at State and federal level, apparently having decided that's somehow a loophole to get around double jeopardy. Smells like bullshit to me.
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 346d
It is bullshit, but it's well established American bullshit rather than new Trump bullshit.
The country has been fucked for a long time, it's just getting worse.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 346d
That's why they hit him with the terrorism charge. It's one of 3 cases where they can call for the death penalty in New York State.
meliodas_101@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 346d
Release him as unfair trial and he walks free.