Will Luigi Mangione face the death penalty? What New York law says

The story keeps changing. The police are avoiding certain topics. The Left-Wing Media is trying to make this about disgruntlement with the current US Healthcare system (and conveniently avoiding mentioning Obamacare). Many Right-wing media outlets are ignoring the presumption of innocence in our legal system and attacking the suspect based his class and where he went to college while also assuming he is a “Lefty.” Luigi Mangione’s lawyer has stated that he is STILL yet to see any evidence from the police. In New York and on online platforms such as Bluesky many are celebrating the assassin as some sort of a folk or comic book hero…they have nicknamed him “The Adjuster.” Others feel that the assassin is a cold-blooded killer, which he is. And through all this fog around this crime there is a ray of light: those who investigate everything. Many online sleuths are combing through the evidence that is publicly available and finding numerous contradictions and inconsistencies with the New York Justice Department’s official messaging that Mangione is, in fact the killer, that he was taking out revenge on the insurance executive to express his discontent with the current US healthcare system, and that he acted alone. We are not buying this presumption of guilt either…because the evidence does not support it…the legitimate evidence, anyway.

Luigi Mangione Thursday waived extradition in Pennsylvania and came to New York where he was charged with murder. But to the surprise of Mangione's lawyers, the...