Mangione pleads guilty to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Thompson

In a packed New York federal courtroom eighteen months after the killing that seized the world's attention, Luigi Mangione — 28 years old, shackled, dressed in prison beige — pleaded guilty to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He spoke of years of physical suffering and a deep grievance with the insurance industry, offering the court the first spoken admission of what happened on a Manhattan street in December 2024. The moment closes one chapter of a case that became, for many, a mirror held up to American healthcare — though sentencing in December and a separate state trial i