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Replied to Ben Royce 🇺🇦

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"The #AttorneyGeneral stated during her television appearance that a reason she ordered the #deathSentence was because the alleged victim was a CEO"
This is as good as an open admission that CEOs have more rights than the rest of us peons. They are a new aristocracy, a new nobility. Robber barons, with emphasis on barons. Slaughter thirty schoolkids? Eh. Thoughts and prayers. Kill one CEO? UNTHINKABLE!!!

"#LuigiMangione defense asks judge to block #deathPenalty in #CEO murder case"

cnbc.com/2025/04/11/luigi-mang

The defense's basis in the filing (pdf file):

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

"The #AttorneyGeneral stated during her television appearance that a reason she ordered the #deathSentence was because the alleged victim was a CEO"

I am not going to presuppose a ruling in today's political environment, but when the prosecution seeks the death penality *because the victim is a CEO*, that's fucked

CNBCLuigi Mangione defense asks judge to block death penalty in CEO murder caseMangione is charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City street in December.