Trump calls for death penalty for Washington DC murder cases
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The US president re-instated federal capital punishment in January, calling it 'the ultimate deterrent'

US President Donald Trump has said he plans to seek the death penalty for suspected murderers in Washington DC.

Speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump said that the death penalty would be a “preventative” measure.

Hundreds of National Guard and federal law enforcement officers have been deployed to the US capital to combat what Trump has previously described as “complete and total lawlessness” in the city - a strategy he has hinted could be repeated in Chicago and other cities.

Washington’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, has rejected the president’s claims about crime, which has fallen in the city since spiking in 2023.

“If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, DC, we’re going to be seeking the death penalty,” Trump told reporters and cabinet members. “And that’s a very strong preventative.”

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Anybody who (still) doesn’t see the parallels to the rise of fascism in Germany needs to get their brains examined.

    While no federal executions have been carried out since Trump returned to office, he oversaw a flurry of 13 executions in the waning months of his first term in late 2020 and January 2021.

    Those executions made Trump the country’s most prolific executioner in over a century, and broke with an 130-year-old precedent of pausing executions amid a presidential transition.

    The last execution came just five days before he left office in January 2021.

    Damn, only the Brits would call that “a flurry”