Attorneys for Luigi Mangione asked a judge to stop federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against their client, saying the U.S. government “intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political stunt.”

The motion filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the death penalty to “carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”

Mangione, 26, who faces state murder and terrorism charges in New York, along with federal murder and stalking charges, is accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year in New York City.

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    Yeah. You’re doing the thing where you change the definition of a thing to that of something that better matches your personal opinion of it.

    Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, personal, financial, or military motives.

    I highlighted the words that are synonymous with a CEO of one of the largest insurance companies to ever exist.

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      Yeah. He was not important.

      Not an assassination.

      An overpaid guy with a job.

      Murdered.

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        Yeah. You’re doing the thing where you change the definition of a thing to that of something that better matches your personal opinion of it again.

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          No. You’re doing the thing where you think a CEO has social prominence. And it’s gross.

          Go lick a boot.

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            Now you’re doing the thing where you resort to personal attacks against people who disagree with your off-hand way of defining things to suit your narrative.