Trump Wants Death Penalty For All Murder Cases in D.C.

TIME

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his Administration will move to reinstate the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, D.C., his latest effort to crack down on crime and exert more federal control over the nation’s capital.  The announcement came without detailed guidance on how it would be carried out. The last execution in the District of Columbia took place in 1957. Most homicides in Washington, D.C. are charged under the local criminal code and tried in D.C. Superior Court, where capital punishment is not authorized. The District’s elected leaders abolished the death penalty in 1981, and residents rejected restoring it in a 1992 referendum by a wide margin.

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00:00If anybody murders something in the Capitol,

00:04capital punishment, capital, capital punishment,

00:08if somebody kills somebody in the Capitol,

00:12Washington, D.C., we're going to be seeking the death penalty.

00:18And that's a very strong preventative.

00:22And everybody that's heard it agrees with it.

00:26I don't know if we're ready for it in this country.

00:30But where you have it, it is, we have no choice.

00:33So in D.C. and Washington, states are going to have to make their own decision.

00:37But if somebody kills somebody, like you could have been killed,

00:42very lucky you didn't get killed, it's the death penalty.

00:45Okay?

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