A New York state judge has dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione over the December 2024 killing of health insurance executive Brian Thompson, although the 27-year-old remains charged with murder in the second degree.

Justice Gregory Carro in Manhattan announced the decision shortly after Mangione was led into the lower Manhattan courtroom handcuffed and with shackles on his feet, wearing tan prison garb.

In his written decision, the judge said that although there is no doubt that the killing was not ordinary street crime, New York law does not consider something terrorism simply because it was motivated by ideology.

"While the defendant was clearly expressing an animus toward UHC, and the health care industry generally, it does not follow that his goal was to 'intimidate an

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