Luigi Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial, claiming he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday. It wouldn’t absolve him of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing, but could free him from prison sooner.
If a jury accepts that defense, the panel would convict Mangione of manslaughter and he would face up to 25 years in prison. Alternatively, the jury could reject the extreme emotional disturbance defense and convict him of murder, which carries a potential life sentence. That defense isn’t available in his federal case.
Actually yeah, my savings and retirement plans are getting wiped out by events beyond my control. Guess shooting a ceo, and getting put in prison, hailed as a folk hero, is a pretty damn good option compared to being on the streets when I can no longer work.
I wonder how many others will see the truth of that as time goes on.
The irony is prisons often have better health care than you can afford outside of prison(this assumes that are run the way they are supposed to be, but we all know how often that actually happens in the USA)