Luigi Mangione should be spared the death penalty because prosecutors are more interested in putting on a “Marvel movie”-esque show than getting justice, his lawyers argued.

The 27-year-old’s legal team called for the entire case to be dismissed, or at the minimum his death penalty provision, saying his perp-walk was staged for the the “political needs of federal and local officials and not for public safety.”

Luigi Mangione’s defense team argued that prosecutors are would rather put on a “Marvel movie”-esque show than get justice. AP

“In a show of force befitting a captured cartel chief or comic book villain, Mr. Mangione, at the time a 26-year-old who had never been in trouble with the law, was ‘perp walked’ before scores of television cameras and press reporters, surrounded by arme

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