Defendant's Lawyers Argue Mental Crisis May Reduce Murder Charge

Luigi Mangione's legal team will tell the court he was in extreme emotional distress when he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. If the judge agrees, his most serious charge could be downgraded from murder to manslaughter—a lesser crime with a shorter sentence. The gun was his; what matters now is whether jurors believe he was mentally unwell enough when it happened to deserve a lighter punishment.