Multiple Department of Justice employees "may have violated" Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial through public comments and social media posts, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday -- and it could end up swaying the judge to grant a defense motion to take the death penalty off the table.
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.
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.
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.
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.