South Carolina’s attorney general has demanded a controversial local prosecutor must seek the death penalty against the career criminal charged with killing 22-year-old Logan Federico after the suspect was allowed to roam free despite 39 previous arrests and 25 felony charges.

Despite all those arrests, suspect Alexander Devante Dickey, 30, has spent barely 600 days behind bars in the past decade, according to news reports.

On May 3, Federico was found dead at a home in Columbia, where she was visiting friends in the area. Dickey is accused of breaking into the home and killing her with a gunshot wound to the chest. He later fled the scene in a stolen vehicle and used stolen credit cards to make purchases, according to police.

The murder case has garnered national attention after the

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