CNA Newsroom, Sep 4, 2025 / 08:20 am

President Donald Trump called on prosecutors in Washington, D.C. to seek the death penalty for any person convicted of murder in the nation’s capital — a plan that has received pushback from the advocacy group Catholic Mobilizing Network.

“Anybody murders [somebody] in the capital — capital punishment,” Trump told reporters last week.

“If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we’re going to be seeking the death penalty and it’s a very strong preventative and everybody that’s heard it agrees with it,” Trump added. “I don’t know if we’re ready for it in this country, but … we have no choice.”

The president did not make clear how he would impose such a requirement. A spokesperson for the White House referred CNA back to Trump’s comm

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