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Attorney General Pam Bondi directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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It's my understanding that this will make it far more difficult for them to get a conviction/verdict. Going for the death penalty has certain bars to hit during a trial by jury. It's often why prosecutors go after lesser sentences on things people absolutely did the worse versions of. This gives them a much more likely guilty verdict from a jury.
By doing this, they're basically torpedoing the case, as I understand it.
Purely to try and scare people/send a message.
When he's rendered a verdict of not-guilty for the crimes that would lead to the death penalty, but is guilty of something relatively trivial, like "owning an unregistered firearm", this could come back to bite them in the ass.
But who knows. I've been hoping for the judicial system to bite the ass of fascists for almost a decade now, without much luck.
Remember nothing about this will be a fair trial. This is going to be the most cooked trial you've ever seen in your life. Jurors will be downright threatened if not bribed.
Trial starts and it's just trump in the jury box. Because executive powers are made up and laws don't matter.
I hope not, but yeah, I suspect this will be the case.
The world is fucked, and this is a perfect microcosm of why.
That microcosm reflects the broader "This is terrible but i'm still too comfortable to do anything about it" mentality of the masses. The world is fucked and it's all of our fault for letting a handful of people make things worse for all of us. We, including myself, are all guilty of this crime. We need to do something.
Idk man, while I agree, I think the trump trials before the elections was the lowest point.
Homer voice: lowest point so far
That's true in state crimes, but federal prosecutions are actually very different.
Federal prosecutors have a lot more room to argue and in general the court tends to favor the prosecution much more.
The judge is responsible for sentencing (and Trump appointed a lot, guarantee he gets a Trump judge), while discovery is much more restrictive against the defendant.
Yep, I came to comment this. Honestly this could be pretty good news for player 2 - getting a jury to convict when the punishment is death will be much, much harder.