In December, Luigi Mangione was arrested for shooting health insurance executive Brian Thompson. Last week, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced that she was seeking the death penalty. It’s a highly unusual announcement, since Mangione hasn’t even been indicted yet on a federal level. (He has been indicted in Manhattan.) By intervening in this high-profile case, the Trump administration has made clear that it believes that CEOs are especially important people whose deaths need to be swiftly and mercilessly avenged.

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    6 days ago

    Welcome to down votes, where you fail to see that they are being extra hard on him because he shot one of the surface dwellers. The difference is his alleged motivations which were to kill someone that has been actively engaging in spreading human misery for profit. In a practical sense, he allegedly killed a mass murderer that was for some reason never charged with a crime.

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        5 days ago

        No, a man with the right to be innocent until proven guilty is being presumed guilty before due process can be done.

        There is a difference

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          Bro idk who tf you think you’re arguing with or over what but it’s not me. He deserves a fair trial, and that means not dropping maximum sentences because some dweebs asked incessantly.

          If you want to change the laws then change it for everyone, not just this fucking loser.

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            I debated how to reply to you for probably too long. The best reply I could think of, is the following:

            Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
            The ceremony of innocence is drowned;