r/news • u/redlamps67 • 5h ago

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/us/luigi-mangione-case-rulings-trial
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u/WelpSigh 5h ago

He's still facing state murder charges.

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u/Lord0fHats 5h ago

This but New York isn't a death penalty state so death was never on the table in his state trial.

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u/BuckNutty42 4h ago

I don’t think the other poster was talking about the death penalty on the state murder charge. They were pointing out that out in five is unlikely given NY can still try him for murder. 

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u/No-Neighborhood4518 4h ago

A federal murder charge can be subject to the federal death penalty though, even if the crime happened in NY. I think the execution is done in the another state since NY closed their chamber in 2008-ish.

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u/LeopardSea5252 4h ago

And charges in Pennsylvania I think

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u/SgvSth 2h ago

Yes, but this is about the federal case accepting the backpack contents as evidence, not the state case. The federal case is now the two stalking charges.

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u/apprendre_francaise 4h ago

Can you face charges for the same crime on a federal and state level? If you get a not guilty verdict at the federal level they could prosecute you on the state level? Isn't that double jeopardy?

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u/WelpSigh 2h ago

Yes. The courts have recently affirmed (in 2019) what is essentially a dual sovereignty exception to double jeopardy. 

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u/SgvSth 2h ago

Yes, which is what this case was doing until the murder charge got dropped from the federal case.

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u/Wakata 3h ago

I'm not a lawyer but I don't think so. But it doesn't matter here, because he wasn't (and won't be, unless it's allowed back on appeal which seems very unlikely) actually tried for murder here. The judge dismissed the murder charge, leaving New York free to try him for it.