President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that his administration will seek to enforce the death penalty for anyone found guilty of killing another person in Washington, D.C., telling members of his Cabinet that “we have no choice.”
“That’s a very strong preventative,” Trump said during the meeting, which was televised on Newsmax. “Everybody that’s heard it agrees with it. I don’t know if we’re ready for it in this country … but we have no choice.”
He added that “states are going to have to make their own decision,” but in D.C., “if somebody kills somebody … It’s the death penalty.”
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