Depose: Luigi Mangione and the Right to Health

The December 4 Legal Committee

Release date: May 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9997930-7-2

Read the Introduction, "On Tyrannicide," here.

When Luigi Mangione was arrested five days after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he shouted a message to the world’s cameras: “It's completely out of touch... an insult to the intelligence of the American People and their lived experience!”

Since then, over a million dollars has been raised from tens of thousands of donors in a fund created for his defense by the December 4 Legal Committee (D4LC). While the prosecution alleges Mangione is a murderer, across the country people allege that Luigi is something else: a revolutionary.

This is a book about what it will take to make him one.

Depose is not a book-length fawning over Luigi, nor even a rehashing of the well known criticisms of US healthcare. Instead, the D4LC asks the question that lies beneath support for Luigi: what would it take for healthcare to be recognized by the US government as a human right?

The December 4 Legal Committee members include medical professionals, philosophers, historians, high school dropouts, an herbalist, a sign-spinner, and an HVAC technician. 100% of all Authors' royalties will be split evenly between grassroots healthcare initiatives and Luigi Mangione's Official Legal Fund for All 3 Cases until he is free.