Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the penalty for the “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination”.

In the press release, Bondi said Mr Thompson’s murder “was an act of political violence” and that it “may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons” nearby.

A lawyer for Mr Mangione called the decision “barbaric”, accused the government of “defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry”, and said Mr Mangione was caught in a tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors.

“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo in a statement.

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    “It’s clear that the mass murderer didn’t have personal beef with the women he killed. It’s ideological because he hates society.”

    The only thing we achieve by calling the CEO murder “terrorism” is to make terrorism look cool. This seems like a mistake since nobody was terrorized except actual real life terrorists (billionaires).

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          No, I can see that. What I don’t understand is why. “If the situation were different, then the situation would be different” isn’t really saying anything, so I’m not sure what the point of that was.