{"id":133670,"date":"2025-09-22T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/22\/politics-not-merit-mangione-defense-lawyers-urge-federal-judge-to-dismiss-capital-case\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:40:06","slug":"politics-not-merit-mangione-defense-lawyers-urge-federal-judge-to-dismiss-capital-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/22\/politics-not-merit-mangione-defense-lawyers-urge-federal-judge-to-dismiss-capital-case\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Politics, Not Merit’?: Mangione Defense Lawyers Urge Federal Judge to Dismiss Capital Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a motion that also urges the court to find the federal death penalty unconstitutional, Mangione’s defense team accused the Department of Justice of a \u201cbrazen breach of the death penalty protocol with regard to their client, who is being prosecuted in connection with the fatal shooting of a health insurance CEO.<\/p>\n

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In a motion that also urges the court to find the federal death penalty unconstitutional, Mangione’s defense team accused the Department of Justice of a \u201cbrazen breach of the death penalty protocol with regard to their client, who is being prosecuted in connection with the fatal shooting of a health insurance CEO.<\/p>\n

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In a motion that also urges the court to find the federal death penalty unconstitutional, Mangione’s defense team accused the Department of Justice of a \u201cbrazen breach of the death penalty protocol with regard to their client, who is being prosecuted in connection with the fatal shooting of a health insurance CEO. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-Hp1RnD.jpg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}