Mangione's defense will argue extreme emotional disturbance in Thompson murder trial

In a New York courtroom, the defense of Luigi Mangione has chosen not to contest what happened on a December morning in Midtown Manhattan, but rather to ask why — and whether the weight of a man's grievances against a system he believed had wronged him might constitute a kind of psychological rupture. The legal strategy of extreme emotional disturbance is an ancient human argument dressed in modern jurisprudence: that suffering, when it accumulates beyond a certain threshold, can diminish the moral clarity we expect of one another. Two trials now await, each probing a different dimension of th