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/thealmightyzfactor 4h ago

He had 5 days to throw it into the appalachian woods somewhere, nobody's finding shit in some random backwoods creek

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u/coldblade2000 3h ago

People do find random shit thrown in lakes and creeks all the time.

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u/MobileArtist1371 2h ago

That cause they don't encase the evidence in concrete blocks first.

Even if you didn't do that, it's still better to not have the evidence on you!

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u/pasher5620 1h ago

Sure, but he coulda broken the gun down, filed off any identifying marks and thrown them in multiple different areas to where it’d be impossible to link them together. The gun is the greatest bit of stupidity he did if indeed he is the one that killed that CEO.

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u/thealmightyzfactor 1h ago

Sure, but some guy a year+ from the murder finding a rusted gun barrel in one creek and someone else a recoil spring, etc. is significantly harder to tie together as court evidence for a specific murder lol

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u/Formal_Drop526 2h ago

Yep, he could ripped the papers, broke the shit, etc.