President of the United States of America Donald Trump promised today that he would introduce the death penalty for every murder in Washington, even though it was abolished in 1981.
"If someone kills someone in our capital, Washington, we will seek the death penalty. And that is a strong deterrent", Trump said during a White House cabinet meeting. His administration will be able to seek the death penalty for federal murders, but not in local cases.
Trump is a supporter of the death penalty, and it is believed that he could change the current laws in Washington, which enjoys special status and whose affairs are overseen by Congress. In 1992, Congress imposed a referendum on reinstating the death penalty in Washington after the murder of one of his aides, which was rejected by two-thirds of the House.
At the beginning of his second term, Trump signed an executive order calling for the expansion of the use of the death penalty for the most serious crimes and ordering federal prosecutors to bring such charges more often.
The death penalty has been abolished in 23 US states, and three have imposed a moratorium on it. Three states, Arizona, Ohio, and Tennessee, have suspended the death penalty, but have also announced their intention to reinstate it.
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