U.S. prosecutors urged a judge to reject a request by Luigi Mangione’s lawyers to dismiss federal death-penalty charges over last year’s fatal shooting of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive in New York.

Lawyers for Attorney General Pam Bondi argued Friday that she properly decided to seek the death penalty should Mangione, 27, be convicted of gunning down Brian Thompson outside a midtown Manhattan hotel last December.

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Mangione, who was arrested after a five-day national manhunt, has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers claim that Bondi didn’t follow the multi-step deliberative process required to pursue the death penalty known as the Capital Case Protocol, an argument that US lawyers sought to refute in their 121-page filing.

“The government fully complied with the Capit

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