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Trump: We are toughening the sentences for murders committed in Washington

2025-08-26 22:45:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Trump: We are toughening the sentences for murders committed in Washington

US President Donald Trump said today that the federal government will seek the death penalty for the murders committed in Washington, D.C.

It is the latest in a federal crackdown on crime, with Washington as a test case, as the president ramps up federal law enforcement efforts in Washington and seeks to build up forces in each state's National Guard to be ready on short notice to deal with civil unrest. The president on Monday signed an executive order focused on crime that included a directive to the defense secretary to organize those plans.

"Anybody who kills something in the capital, death penalty. Death penalty, death penalty. If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we will seek the death penalty. And that is a very strong deterrent," Trump said during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

The District of Columbia has not executed anyone since 1957, after Robert Carter was convicted of the shooting death of an off-duty police officer. Decades earlier, D.C. had mandatory death sentences for first-degree murder, a policy that the Supreme Court overturned in the 1972 case Furman v. Georgia, when it found that the death penalty was being applied arbitrarily and unconstitutionally.

Four years later, the high court allowed the reinstatement of the death penalty with clearer sentencing guidelines. However, the D.C. City Council abolished the death penalty in 1981./CNA 





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