Trump’s executive order is “designed to spread fear,” Free DC says, “something we know authoritarians always do.”…

On September 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the attorney general and the U.S. attorney general for D.C. to seek the death penalty in the nation’s capital whenever “appropriate.” “The death penalty in Washington,” Trump said at the signing. “You kill somebody, or if you kill a police officer, law enforcement officer — death penalty.” In 1981, the D.C.

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