Apparently, not even the possibility of the death penalty can bring Luigi Mangione down.

Mangione, 27, the man accused of killing a health-insurance executive in broad daylight last year, appeared all smiles in the Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday as he scanned the courtroom packed with his adoring fans.

Meanwhile, his attorneys argued for his diary entries and other evidence to be thrown out ahead of his state murder trial.

The Baltimore-area native gained notoriety almost overnight after he was named the primary suspect in the assassination-style shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a man who never saw it coming on a Manhattan sidewalk in December 2024. After a day-long manhunt, Mangione was apprehended inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania—some 280 miles west of

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