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Judge Jeanine provided a level-headed admonishment of co-host Jesse Watters when a discussion on the CEO killer took a dark turn.
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Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot in the back by a murderer who had allegedly written “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” on the casings of the bullets used to end his life. On Monday a man named Luigi Mangione was taken into custody for questioning regarding the crime. This development was discussed on Fox News’s ‘The Five’ when co-hosts Jesse Watters and resident liberal Harold Ford both agreed that somebody committing something so tragic should receive the death penalty or prison “justice.”
Ford kicked things off by condemning the celebrations of Thompson’s killing.
“To answer your question, we live in a really perverse and dangerous and awful place, when people are willing to say the things that people are saying online. For this person with Taylor Lorenz celebrating CEOs, what kind of society do we live in?” he asked. “I can understand you disagreeing with the company’s policies. That doesn’t mean that anyone has no right to go and kill somebody. This young guy right here if indeed he is the person and they prosecute him, I hope he is — I hope he gets the death penalty. I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent. Maybe you can get him to get in there and figure something out.”
Judge Jeanine pointed out that New York doesn’t have the death penalty, at which point Watters mused about the possibility of “prison justice.”
“I don’t think anyone’s ready, Brian,” Watters responded to co-host Brian Kilmeade’s question about whether Mangione, if he’s convicted, is ready for prison. “Maybe you are Brian, in a different way. But this guy’s not ready. He’s way too soft. He’s gonna get annihilated on the inside, and good. If he’s not gonna get the death penalty, maybe someone will do him justice behind bars. That’s all I have to say about that.”
“You should stop there,” Pirro chided.
“People say that a lot,” he joked.
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