President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday ordering his top prosecutors to seek the death penalty “in all appropriate cases” in Washington, D.C.

The new order succeeds a January directive to use the death penalty more broadly.

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“You kill somebody, or if you kill a police officer, a law enforcement officer — death penalty,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.

“It’s a very interesting capital punishment, capital city. Capital, capital, capital,” he added.

D.C. repealed the death penalty in 1981. Trump’s order instructs Attorney Gener

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