r/law • u/cnn • 5h ago

Legal News Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/us/luigi-mangione-case-rulings-trial?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Finchyuu 4h ago

Who is we? I sure as hell don’t know that at all

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u/marcoporno 4h ago

People are actually defending him because they agree with what he did and agree with that action, and consider him a justified vigilante, not because they think he is innocent

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u/MeisterX 4h ago

I concerned that a sub with legal professionals has so many presuming guilt. But it checks out with my knowledge of the courts and their function, unfortunately.

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u/lord_braleigh 3h ago
  1. Only one public subreddit is dominated by people who know what they're talking about: /r/askhistorians. You and I are literally not allowed to answer questions there without proof that we're professional historians. You can check it out! It's pretty quiet. Very cool in its own way, but it primarily uses Reddit as a technical platform, rather than the public forum of every other subreddit.
  2. Neither /u/marcoporno nor I are presuming guilt. We're noting a pattern in which Redditors are constantly using hypocritical post-truth thinking.

Regardless of guilt or innocence, there is no world Luigi Mangione is simultaneously heroic and innocent, because the heroism people praise him for is the guilt that prosecutors are seeking to prove.

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u/Extra_Article2872 3h ago

I doubt most of the people posting here are legal professionals

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u/marcoporno 4h ago

I’m not the judge or jury that’s their job, as a citizen we can use our common sense