State Wants Death Penalty for Jacques

The state's going for the death penalty against Michael Jacques. The announcement came in Montpelier yesterday when federal officials said Jacques allegedly raped and murdered his niece Brooke Bennett last summer. She was 12 and he is 43 and the feds say he's shown no remose for what they call an especially heinous, cruel and depraved crime. The Rutland Herald reports that Bennett's disappearance last year set off Vermont's first ever Amber Alert and set in motion the state's sex offender registry. While Jacques was arrested shortly after Bennett disappeared, officials say the investigation moved slowly as federal and county prosecutors decided on the death penalty for Jacques.