Takeaways from the Luigi Mangione case

I had a read about the Luigi Mangione case. Some interesting points:

• He was charged at the state and federal level, which is not very common. Other examples include the Charleston church shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing, which in my opinion, carry much higher severities in terms of violent outcomes and disregard for human right to life. I feel that to equate Luigi's actions to these other acts is unfair.
  • Side note: it seems like there are various loopholes to remove your basic rights during criminal trials in the United States. For the Boston marathon bomber's proceedings, they received "special administrative measures (SAMs)" which isolated the bomber from communication with legal counsel and family. He was also not given a Miranda warning via a "public safety exception". It was suggested at one point that he be tried as an "unlawful enemy combatant", which waives your right to legal counsel. I am not condoning the actions of the marathon bombers, but it seems fraught with risk of corruption and unfair trials to know these rights can be removed in certain cases.
• Trump signed an executive order that the Attorney General pursue federal jurisdiction (like for Mangione) to utilise the death penalty where possible. This reads like a dystopian authoritarian's decree. It asks the Attorney General to recommend that states with capital punishment pursue the death penalty if the federal charge is unsuccessful. It asks them to try overturn Supreme Court precedent which hinders use of the death penalty. It's actually bonkers, go have read yourself.
  • Even scarier is the Attorney General's blatant disregard for due process when it comes to pursuing the death penalty. They also knowingly heavily biased the public by declaring his guilt in a press release. Bypassing controls and processes in the pursuit of death is one of the most fascist things I've seen in the United States recently.
• The media coverage of Mangione is very selective. In particular, they omit or discredit the authenticity of Mangione's written intentions.
  • There are two notes which Mangione may have left behind. One is the verified letter "To the Feds", and the second is the Substack essay, also referred to as Luigi's "manifesto".
  • Many media outlets (from my searching) dismiss that he even wrote a manifesto, and it's difficult to find online. I can understand that this may to prevent prejudice; by withholding the manifesto until it can be disclosed to the jury as legal evidence, it avoids the juror pool (ie the public) from being exposed to potentially biased media coverage interpreting the manifesto.