Aug. 26 (UPI) -- When someone is accused of murder in the nation's capital, President Donald Trump wants federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty, which is banned there.
"If somebody kills somebody, it's the death penalty," Trump told his Cabinet during a Tuesday meeting.
Washington has not imposed the death penalty since 1957, and the Supreme Court nullified the capital's death penalty in 1972, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The District of Columbia Council repealed the death penalty in 1981, and district residents in 1992 also voted against a ballot referendum that would have reinstated the death penalty.
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