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Don't you just love it when a liberal challenges the supremacy of federal laws and no one mentions it?
Chafee refuses to give suspect to feds | State Government | projo.com | The Providence Journal
Governor Chafee is refusing to turn over a suspected murderer in state custody to the federal government, declaring that doing so would expose prisoner Jason Wayne Pleau to the death penalty, a penalty he says has been consciously rejected by Rhode Island, even for the most heinous of crimes. In a letter dispatched to U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha Thursday afternoon, Chafee said he is not going to allow the transfer of Pleau, who has been accused of robbing and killing gas station manager David D. Main as he prepared make a deposit at a Citizens Bank branch in Woonsocket on Sept. 20.
If prosecuted in the federal system, Pleau would fall under the Hobbs Act, in which conspiracy and robbery can be punishable by life imprisonment or death if a firearm was used in a crime that results in death.
In his letter, Chafee said his rejection of the federal request should in no way minimize the tragic and senseless nature of Mr. Mains murder, and declared that the person or persons responsible for this horrific act must, and will, be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law. I extend my deepest sympathy to Mr. Mains family for their unspeakable loss.
Chafee refuses to give suspect to feds | State Government | projo.com | The Providence Journal