


The Issue: The Pennsylvania arrest of a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The alleged assassin of United Healthcare Chief Executive Officer Brian Thompson is getting everything he surely wants (“Luigi’s unhappy meal,” Dec. 11).
The story of the killing has been prominent in virtually every national and local newscast since it occurred.
His photograph is recognizable by tens of millions of people and prominently appears on television, myriad websites and in print.
We are being told his story and learning details of his grievances against the health-care industry and corporate America, complaints which he concluded provided him the right to slaughter a young husband and father.
His notoriety will cause him to be remembered in the annals of history for all the wrong reasons.
The word “vigilante” is too kind to characterize the killer’s actions.
He is a domestic terrorist.
Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.
Mangione’s supposed back injury was apparently too painful to bear without (allegedly) offing someone.
This is really the result of his own faulty decision-making.
Mangione looks like an otherwise healthy male.
Millions of people suffer pain each day for various reasons, but they don’t find that a reason to go out and shoot someone to death.
In short, Mangione needs to grow up and take it like a man.
Elinor Hite
Carrollton, Texas
Even if Brian Thompson was guilty of anything, wouldn’t he still have been entitled to a trial by jury (“Left’s warped sense of right,” PostOpinion, Piers Morgan, Dec. 11)?
Apparently not, according to journalist Taylor Lorenz.
She said she felt joy upon learning of Thompson’s murder.
And this is what passes for journalism these days?
James Evans
Worcester, Mass.
The reaction to the CEO’s death is nothing new.
The same troglodytes who cheered the assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump are the people that applauded the murder of the Brian Thompson.
I wonder how those editors at The New York Times and Washington Post feel about hiring Taylor Lorenz now.
The Left fueling this hateful rhetoric has created a society of lunatics.
People actually believe this craziness.
Kevin Judge
Naples, Fla.
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The Issue: Juan Soto quitting the Yankees after winning a $765 million contract with the Mets.
The contract that star baseball player Juan Soto just signed with the Mets is obscene (“It’s a brave new world,” Dec. 11).
It’s not the $765 million that shocks me as much as the contract’s 15-year length.
Soto is 26; this contract will run until he is over 40, when most baseball players have retired or are limited to part-time play due to injuries.
Soto is probably the greatest hitter since Ted Williams, but where does this end?
I am glad that he will still be playing on a local team, but I thought he was a great fit batting in front of Aaron Judge with the Yankees.
It’s like taking away Mantle from the ’61 Yankees.
Warren Goldfein
Mount Arlington, NJ
As a Yankees fan, I don’t hate Soto for signing cross-town with the Mets in free agency.
I’m just jealous that anyone can be paid that much money.
Adam Silbert
Manhattan
Asked if it was fair that his post-60-home-runs-season salary rose to $80,000 a year, higher than President Herbert Hoover’s $75,000, Babe Ruth said, “Why not? I had a better year.”
I guess Juan Soto could honestly say that his one year with the Yankees was a lot better than Joe Biden’s final year as president.
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
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