Urges Cuba to extradite Joanne Chesimard to U.S.

This Senate Resolution (SR 23) urges Cuba to extradite Joanne Chesimard (also known as Assata Shakur), a convicted murderer of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. It directly addresses Cuba, referencing her 1977 life sentence for the 1973 murder and subsequent escape to Cuba in 1979, where she received political asylum. The resolution, introduced in the New Jersey Senate, asks Cuba to extradite her as part of renewed U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations. It is a non-binding symbolic gesture, not a law, with no legal enforcement power.