r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Glittery_WarlockWho • 27d 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/PrizeStrawberryOil 27d ago

Even the guy driving home after a party at 9pm knows the risks of drunk driving. It's been a huge campaign spanning decades. The only people that it's excusable to not know that drunk driving is dangerous are people incapable of driving.

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u/Dull-Law3229 27d ago

Yeah but depraved heart murder is acting with knowledge that a person will most assuredly be hurt, like leaving someone in the middle of a desert or leaving someone bound in a lock closet for a week.

Typical DUI behavior like what you mentioned is involuntary manslaughter.

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u/PrizeStrawberryOil 27d ago

Wisconsin it's literally murder. We have a specific law for it. Homicide by intoxicated use of vehicle or firearm. Every state should, they know better. "Sufficient stupidity is indistinguishable from malice"

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u/Dull-Law3229 27d ago

Are you referring to this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/wisconsin/comments/v7sskx/wisconsin_law_requires_a_5year_sentence_for/

It looks like it's still classified as a homicide rather than a murder. It's definitely a pretty stiff penalty but it seems to be more manslaughter than actual depraved heart murder.

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u/PrizeStrawberryOil 27d ago

Manslaughter is class G, when you're drunk it's class C/D. All of our laws use homicide and not murder or manslaughter.

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u/Dull-Law3229 27d ago

Good to know, thank you.