Mace asks DOJ to intervene in fatal shooting of young SC woman allegedly killed by serial criminal

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace is urging the Justice Department to intervene in the prosecution of a serial criminal who allegedly killed a 22-year-old woman in her sleep, then shopped with her credit cards.  

The Republican congresswoman wants to prosecute the defendant, Alexander Dickey, with the Hobbs Act. The federal law prohibits robbery and related conspiracies and threats of violence and applies to private citizens and public officials.

Dickey's rap sheet reportedly included 39 arrests and 25 felony charges before he fatally shot the female victim, Logan Federico, in early May.

Mace said Tuesday on the John Solomon Reports podcast that she has written Attorney General Pam Bondi with her request.

"There are two articles or acts under Title 18 that would allow the feds to take this over," said Mace, a champion for women and victims' rights. "Donald Trump has allowed the death penalty to be pursued through executive order, and we need the feds to take over this case and make sure justice is served for Logan Federico and her family."

The two articles to which Mace, now a top candidate in the 2026 GOP primary for governor, more specifically relate to a person who "in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery ... or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section."

The articles also define robbery as "the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person ... by means of actual or threatened force, or violence, or fear of injury."

"This guy needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and the death penalty needs to be on the table," said Mace, who also said on the podcast that she's taken her request directly to the White House, too. 

Dickey allegedly killed Federico as part of a spree that night of breaking into houses to steal credit cards, then later going on a shopping spree.

Mace also pointed to an executive offer signed by President Trump that directs the Justice Department to “pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.” 

Mace argues the case "clearly" meets the standard and provides sufficient federal jurisdiction, making this crime only punishable by death.

She also is critical of the handling of the case by state Attorney General Alan Wilson, a rival in the GOP gubernatorial primary, saying his "politicizing" of it has jeopardized the state’s case and its ability to pursue the death penalty.

However, Wilson in recent days appears to have made clear that he wants the death penalty, announcing that his office was “ready to assume” responsibility for the case if Fifth Circuit Solicitor Byron Gipson declined to consider the penalty, according to TheState.com.