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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump has announced involvement successful reimplementing the decease punishment successful Washington, D.C., amid his caller national crackdown connected transgression successful the city.
In a Cabinet gathering Tuesday, Trump said that helium volition beryllium "seeking the decease penalty" for murderers successful the nation's capital.
"If idiosyncratic kills idiosyncratic successful the capital, Washington, D.C., we're going to beryllium seeking the decease penalty, and that's a precise beardown preventative," helium said.
Currently, D.C. does not let superior punishment to beryllium utilized arsenic a ineligible penalty. The decease punishment successful the District was nullified by the Supreme Court determination successful Furman v. Georgia successful 1972 and subsequently repealed by the D.C. Council successful 1981, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
This is not the archetypal clip Trump has mentioned the decease punishment during his term. On the archetypal time of his presidency, Trump issued an executive order that argues "capital punishment is an indispensable instrumentality for deterring and punishing those who would perpetrate the astir heinous crimes and acts of lethal unit against American citizens."
Contrary to Trump's beliefs, however, research suggests the decease punishment does not trim oregon deter convulsive transgression and disproportionately affects Black people.
Currently, 27 states let the decease penalty, portion 23 bash not let it.
"States are going to person to marque their ain decision," Trump continued.
D.C. has not had an execution since Robert Carter successful 1957.
