If someone commits a crime federally considered punishable by death in a state that has abolished capital punishment, can the suspect be transported to a state that still practices it (a state different from where the crime was committed) in order to be prosecuted?
Can the death penalty be pursued even if a state has abolished it entirely?
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- 3+ months ago by curiousprep
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- state, death, capital, crime, punishment
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Answers (2)
If this was a Federal crime then the defendant would be tried in a Federal court and then executed in Federal prison the death row is at Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Terre Haute) in Indiana.
Ronell Wilson was convicted Federally for murder in 2013, he had committed the murders of two detectives in New York State which has no death penalty, he is in Terre Haute awaiting execution.
