A Cape Cod state representative says “justice has been served” after a jury convicted a local man of making threats against the elected Republican lawmaker, which included the statement, “I will not support you or your Trumpism.”

Rep. Steven Xiarhos, a Barnstable Republican, is thanking Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois and his office for prosecuting James Spence, a 63-year-old Dennis resident set to serve six months in jail.

Xiarhos told the Herald that he’s “not afraid to do the job I was elected to do. I chose a life of service. But that service should not come with death threats.”

“The rise in threats, attempted assassinations, and violence against public officials has become a crisis in this country,” the representative said via text message Thursday evening. “We’

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