President Trump’s suggestions that the suspects in two high-profile killings face the death penalty add to his administration’s increasingly aggressive approach toward capital punishment.

This week, Trump called for the 22-year-old accused of killing Charlie Kirk and the man charged in Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail system to face execution.

It comes on the heels of the administration’s initial efforts to seek the death penalty for other high-profile murder defendants, like Luigi Mangione and the suspect charged with gunning down two Israeli Embassy staffers.

Together, the cases reflect the president’s attempts to make good on his campaign promise to “restore” the death penalty, a marked shift in how violent crimes are prosecuted compared to the Bi

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