About Matthew Mangino

Matthew Mangino

Matthew Mangino

Matthew T. Mangino is of counsel with Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly and George, P.C. He is the former district attorney of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. He also spent a six-year term on the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. He is an adjunct professor at Thiel College.

Mangino's book, “The Executioner's Toll, 2010,” was published by McFarland & Company.

His weekly column on crime and punishment was syndicated nationwide by GateHouse Media and Gannett. Mangino's articles have been published in The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch and Harrisburg Patriot News.

Mangino is a featured columnist for the Pennsylvania Law Weekly and a regular contributor to The Crime Report and the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

Mangino is a trial analyst for Law and Crime Network and a regular contributor to “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” and Court TV.

He has provided legal commentary for ID Discovery, A&E, CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, Al Jazeera-America and National Public Radio. In addition to his law degree from Duquesne University, Mangino earned a master’s degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mangino served on the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission's Advisory Committee on Capital Punishment and the White House Conference of School Safety and Youth Violence.

Read his column here.

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