r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Glittery_WarlockWho • 28d ago

Why is Luigi Mangione potentially facing the death penalty for the murder of one person when other murderers with similar crimes get jain time?

Please no snarky comments of 'you know why' , 'it's because the guy was rich' etc... There HAS to be a reason why his crime is getting sentenced so heavily that doesn't have to do with the net worth of his victim, or at least I hope there is.

In my city, a drunk driver kills two people in a car and he's sentenced to jail for 20 years and gets out in 12 for good behaviour.

Luigi kills one man and is facing the death penalty?

I don't understand, he didn't kidnap, rape or torture, I've heard of murderers who rape and murder their victims get sentenced to jail.

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u/GeekAesthete 28d ago

More specifically, regarding OP's comparison: a drunk-driving accident would be vehicular manslaughter, while planning and carrying out an execution is first-degree murder (and in this case, they added terrorism charges on top of that). Sure, they both result in someone dead, but they are treated as very different crimes.

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u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll 27d ago

frankly they shouldn't. getting behind the wheel drunk shows intentions to violate others safety.

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u/SeaUrchinSalad 27d ago

Seriously? You think a working class Joe that got too drunk and drive deserves the same treatment as someone that plotted for weeks to kill an innocent person? Forget the context of how much you hate corporate America: this is a pretty braindead take

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u/Revelationary_Music 27d ago

If you set them both free I’d be more afraid of the drunk driver than Luigi

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u/SeaUrchinSalad 27d ago

I told you to ignore the context and hatred... If it werent some rich guy he killed, how would you feel then?

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u/Revelationary_Music 27d ago

Forget the context of the Second World War. Isn’t invading countries a bad thing to do? If it wasn’t Nazi germany we invaded wouldn’t that have been wrong?

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u/SeaUrchinSalad 27d ago

I like that you still haven't answered the question lol yes invading other countries is bad EXCEPT WHEN...

if you live next to a country with a history of invading others, aren't you worried they might suddenly point at yours and cry "nazissss!" Before invading you? That's the same reason we (rational thinking humans) don't trust vigilantes: sure this time your ok with who they killed....

The probably being that the op here recognizes this concern, hence why they're afraid of a drink driver getting out of prison. So wild to me that y'all are so incapable of reason as soon as billionaires enter the topic of conversation

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u/Revelationary_Music 27d ago edited 27d ago

Why are you pretending like this has something to do with how much money he had and not how he made it? He wasn’t even that rich. If Luigi had a problem with rich people he could have shot them at his family’s Thanksgiving dinner or their country club, what brought him all the way to New York?

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u/alex2003super 27d ago

He was mentally ill and violent, that's what made him do that