The president made the announcement this Thursday, instructing government prosecutors to follow the same doctrine throughout the country
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a presidential memorandum this Thursday that reinstates the death penalty in the Washington D.C. district, with the goal of having capital punishment reinstated throughout the country.
"The death penalty is back in Washington," Trump declared to journalists who gathered in the Oval Office to cover the press conference. "If you kill someone, or if you kill a police officer, a law enforcement agent, the death penalty applies. Hopefully, they won't do it."
The presidential decree instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, to apply the death penalty in Washington D.C. "when the evidence and facts indicate it."
Trump reinstaura la pena capital en D.C: 'si matas a un policía, pena de muerte' "We will seek the death penalty nationwide"
In this regard, Bondi hinted that she will seek to have this type of penalty operational throughout the United States. "We will not only seek it in Washington D.C., but across the entire country," in a clear message to Democrat-controlled jurisdictions that reject this type of punishment, considering it "inhumane."
The chief prosecutor added that her department is in the process of transferring inmates whom former President Joe Biden had removed from death row to maximum security facilities. "We are transferring them to maximum security facilities, where they will be treated as if they were on death row for the rest of their lives."
Last month, Trump said that he was working to make the death penalty eligible again in the U.S. capital, adding that it will be up to the states to decide whether or not to reapply it. The President views this punishment as "a very strong preventive measure" to end crime.
It should be recalled that former President Biden, in his last days in the White House and as an act of clemency for murderers, commuted the sentences of 37 inmates sentenced to death who were in federal prisons. Among those who benefited was the perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon terrorist attack, which left 3 dead and more than 200 injured.
Trump reinstaura la pena capital en D.C: 'si matas a un policía, pena de muerte'
