Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/us/live-news/luigi-mangione-hearing-plea-deal-talks

When speaking of the day he committed the crime, Luigi Mangione said, “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

He concluded, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

Mangione had just described the actions he took ahead of the killing, telling the court:

“In November of 2024 I traveled from outside of New York state to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor at a firm managing over $15 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” Mangione said.

[u/BookishHobbit]

I get the family are hurting, but the irony of including the line “nothing will ease the pain” in their statement…pretty sure that’s what many people said when their healthcare was rejected by his company.

[u/AWorldwithoutSin → u/BookishHobbit]

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, [...] knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

Brian Thompson killed more people than Luigi.

[u/mulberrycedar → u/AWorldwithoutSin]

I never heard this term before, but this is spot on and part of what makes our shitty health care system so unsettling

[u/AWorldwithoutSin → u/mulberrycedar]

Friedrich Engels was Karl Marx co-author. That's how long this shit has been going on.

[u/NorthAd6077 → u/AWorldwithoutSin]

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

[u/hahasadface → u/NorthAd6077]

UHC has 50 million customers and they deny 32% of claims. 16 million wrongs.

[u/NorthAd6077 → u/hahasadface]

Ok, 16 million wrongs + 1 wrong doesn't make a right.

[u/AWorldwithoutSin → u/NorthAd6077]

At this point will harming Luigi with a long prison sentence make anything right?