By Joseph Ax

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday charged a man with stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death last month on a North Carolina train, a case that in recent days has served as a rallying cry for President Donald Trump’s broadening crime crackdown.

Decarlos Brown, 34, now faces a federal charge of committing a murder on a mass transportation system, after he was already arrested on a state charge of first-degree murder. While both the state and federal charges carry possible death sentences, the state of North Carolina has not executed an inmate since 2006, while the federal government has carried out executions as recently as 2021.

Trump and other conservatives have asserted that the murder of Iryna Zarutska, 23, was the result of Democratic policies that are too

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