Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Luigi Mangione pleading guilty within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Luigi Mangione stalked and killed the harmless CEO of UnitedHealthcare, claiming he was a sufferer of a health drawback, and you’ve got idiots coming to his protection (“Sick cult of idiotic fangirls,” Kirsten Fleming, Aug. 15).
This is probably the most ridiculous story from begin to end. This man is a assassin and must go to jail for all times.
These people, together with his legal professional, need to test themselves. Murder is homicide and you don’t get a free, go. Young ladies sending money and like to this man need to stop and get help.
Kate Phelan
Boca Raton, Fla.
Mangione is a diabolical assassin who’s deserving of the death penalty. Any respectable, righteous particular person ought to agree that this murderer ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Yet he has change into a darling to a cult of younger, delusional people.
The visibly distraught widow of Brian Thompson needed to come face-to-face with the sinister Mangione in court docket. Upon departing, she was disgracefully confronted by a cult of deviant misfits chanting “America loves Luigi.” What a poisonous, morally poisonous society we dwell in.
Denis David
East Rockaway
The legal professionals for Luigi Mangione, who wasn’t even a buyer of UnitedHealthcare, claimed his murderous rage was attributed to “chronic” back ache. Who doesn’t have back ache? Should all people who has it kill a health-care govt?
As for the “Mangionistas,” if you come to your senses, when you ever do, you’ll be ashamed of what you’ve achieved.
This is basically sick and irregular habits. I counsel you discover a simply trigger to rally round — not a psychopath.
Louie Rey
Summerville, SC
Mangione’s court docket assertion that he understood his motion would place Thompson “in fear of death” is an egregious falsehood. This coward shot an harmless man within the back. Thompson was executed with completely no warning.
Mangione ought to by no means expertise one other day of freedom.
Chas Hunt
Sandy Hook, Conn.
Fleming’s account of the “Mangionistas” calls to thoughts a warning issued almost 40 years in the past by Allan Bloom in “The Closing of the American Mind.”
Bloom charged that universities, within the title of “openness,” taught relativism: mistrust of goal reality, of the Western mental inheritance and of common requirements of ethical judgment.
Mangione has admitted to killing Thompson. Yet followers can rework homicide into an act of protest and its perpetrator into a martyr. Rather than asking whether or not the act was proper or mistaken, they ask who dedicated it and in opposition to whom.
Relativism didn’t open the American thoughts — it erased the requirements by which a civilized society distinguishes grievance from justification and political protest from homicide.
Candace de Russy
Fleetwood
Mangione ought to obtain punishment to the complete extent of the law, although I consider medical-insurance charges are getting out of hand.
I’m 77, and my spouse is 73. I’ve Stage 4 most cancers, and UnitedHealthcare is raising my premiums.
I really feel the American people are victims of insurance coverage firms and one thing should be achieved. That stated, homicide is mistaken — even when you disagree with a company’s insurance policies.
Frederick Bedell Jr.
Bellerose
There ought to be no doubt that Mangione ought to spend the remaining of his life behind bars with no likelihood for parole.
Is our federal justice system so warped that an evil murderer who killed an harmless household man in cold blood would warrant any mercy?
Mangione confirmed no mercy to Thompson, and the court docket ought to deal with him the identical.
Gerald Jacobs
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Boca Raton, Fla.
As an legal professional, I wouldn’t have had Mangione make this plea deal as a result of of all of the people who expressed assist for him. The consequence of any trial most likely would have resulted in a hung jury.
Robert Berk
Manhattan
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