Trump has ordered the reinstatement of the death penalty in DC, thank God.

[mark francis]

President Trump is like a non-stop Energy Bunnie on a mission to spread principles of peace and justice everywhere he turns.

Trump Directs Enforcement of Death Penalty in DC | NTD

Trump Directs Enforcement of Death Penalty in DC
'You kill somebody, or if you kill a police officer, law enforcement officer—death penalty,' Trump told reporters.
ByRachel Acenas

|Published: 9/25/2025, 5:34:53 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum to bring back the death penalty in the nation's capital.

Trump issued the memorandum from the Oval Office on Thursday.

The move directs Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to fully enforce federal capital punishment laws in the nation's capital, ensuring prosecutors seek the death penalty in "appropriate cases" that warrant its use.

"You kill somebody, or if you kill a police officer, law enforcement officer—death penalty," Trump told reporters.

NTD reached out to Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office seeking a response to Trump’s proclamation, but did not receive a response by publication.

Capital punishment was banned in 1981 and has since been prohibited for crimes in the nation’s capital under District law. However, federal prosecutors can bring federal capital charges in some cases, allowing them to pursue the death penalty in Washington.

Thursday’s proclamation represents the latest action by the president to tackle crime in Washington.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

The death penalty is not any sort of real deterrent because most murderers do not think they will be caught. Trump just enjoys cruelty.

 

[mark francis]

The death penalty is not any sort of real deterrent because most murderers do not think they will be caught. Trump just enjoys cruelty.

Deterrent or not murderers deserve to die for willfully murdering someone in cold blood and no amount of leftist whining over the cruelty they imagine the murderer is facing with the death penalty will ever change that fact.

 

[Stalin]

Given the fallibility of human judgment, there has always been the danger that an execution could result in the killing of an innocent person. Nevertheless, when the U.S. Supreme Court held the administration of the death penalty to be unconstitutional in 1972, there was barely any mention of the issue of innocence in the nine opinions issued. Although mistakes were surely made in the past, the assumption prevailed that such cases were few and far between. Almost everyone on death row was surely guilty.

However, as federal courts began to more thoroughly review whether state criminal defendants were afforded their guaranteed rights to due process, errors and official misconduct began to regularly appear, requiring retrials. When defendants were now afforded more experienced counsel, with fairly selected juries, and were granted access to scientific testing, some were acquitted and released. Since 1973, 200 former death-row prisoners have been exonerated of all charges related to the wrongful convictions that had put them on death row.

Innocence | Death Penalty Information Center

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

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8 People Who Were Executed and Later Found Innocent​

1. Cameron Todd Willingham—In 1992, Willingham was convicted of arson murder in Texas. He was believed to have intentionally set a fire that killed his three kids. In 2004, he was put to death. Unfortunately, the Texas Forensic Science Commission later found that the evidence was misinterpreted, and they concluded that none of the evidence used against Willingham was valid. As it turns out, the fire really was accidental.


2. Ruben Cantu—Cantu was 17 at the time the crime he was alleged of committing took place. Cantu was convicted of capital murder, and in 1993, the Texas teen was executed. About 12 years after his death, investigations show that Cantu likely didn’t commit the murder. The lone eyewitness recanted his testimony, and Cantu’s co-defendant later admitted he allowed his friend to be falsely accused. He says Cantu wasn’t even there the night of the murder.


3. Larry Griffin—Griffin was put to death in 1995 for the 1981 murder of Quintin Moss, a Missouri drug dealer. Griffin always maintained his innocence, and now, evidence seems to indicate he was telling the truth. The first police officer on the scene now says the eyewitness account was false, even though the officer supported the claims during the trial. Another eyewitness who was wounded during the attack was never contacted during the trial, and he says Griffin wasn’t present at the crime scene that night.


4. Carlos DeLuna—In 1989, DeLuna was executed for the stabbing of a Texas convenience store clerk. Almost 20 years later, Chicago Tribune uncovered evidence that shows DeLuna was likely innocent. The evidence showed that Carlos Hernandez, a man who even confessed to the murder many times, actually did the crime.


5. David Wayne Spence—Spence was put to death in 1997 for the murder of three teenagers in Texas. He was supposedly hired by a convenience store clerk to kill someone else, but he allegedly killed the wrong people by mistake.

Related: The American death penalty: A tragedy of errors

The supervising police lieutenant said “I do not think David Spence committed this crime.” The lead homicide detective agreed, saying “My opinion is that David Spence was innocent. Nothing from the investigation ever led us to any evidence that he was involved.”


6. Jesse Tafero—In 1976, Tafero was convicted of murdering a state trooper. He and Sonia Jacobs were both sentenced to death for the crime. The main evidence used to convict them was testimony by someone else who was involved in the crime, ex-convict Walter Rhodes. Rhodes gave this testimony in exchange for a life sentence. In 1990, Tafero was put to death. Two years later, his companion Jacobs was released due to a lack of evidence…the same evidence used to put Tafero to death.


7 & 8. Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin— The oldest case on this list dates back to 1915. The Griffin brothers, two black men, were convicted of the murder of a white man. The reason they were convicted is because Monk Stevenson, another black man suspected of committing the murder, pointed to the brothers as having been responsible. He later admitted the reason he blamed them is because they were wealthy, and he assumed they had the money to beat the charges. The Griffin brothers were completely innocent, but they were put to death nonetheless.

8 People Who Were Executed and Later Found Innocent - AvvoStories

It’d be nice to think our judicial system is totally infallible, but unfortunately, that’s just not the case. Innocent people are convicted of crimes they

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comrade stalin
moscow

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

Deterrent or not murderers deserve to die for willfully murdering someone in cold blood and no amount of leftist whining over the cruelty they imagine the murderer is facing with the death penalty will ever change that fact.

Why do we kill people to tell people that killing people is wrong? Did Jesus recommend the death penalty?

 

[mark francis]

Given the fallibility of human judgment, there has always been the danger that an execution could result in the killing of an innocent person. Nevertheless, when the U.S. Supreme Court held the administration of the death penalty to be unconstitutional in 1972, there was barely any mention of the issue of innocence in the nine opinions issued. Although mistakes were surely made in the past, the assumption prevailed that such cases were few and far between. Almost everyone on death row was surely guilty.

However, as federal courts began to more thoroughly review whether state criminal defendants were afforded their guaranteed rights to due process, errors and official misconduct began to regularly appear, requiring retrials. When defendants were now afforded more experienced counsel, with fairly selected juries, and were granted access to scientific testing, some were acquitted and released. Since 1973, 200 former death-row prisoners have been exonerated of all charges related to the wrongful convictions that had put them on death row.

Innocence | Death Penalty Information Center

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public…

deathpenaltyinfo.org

8 People Who Were Executed and Later Found Innocent​

1. Cameron Todd Willingham—In 1992, Willingham was convicted of arson murder in Texas. He was believed to have intentionally set a fire that killed his three kids. In 2004, he was put to death. Unfortunately, the Texas Forensic Science Commission later found that the evidence was misinterpreted, and they concluded that none of the evidence used against Willingham was valid. As it turns out, the fire really was accidental.


2. Ruben Cantu—Cantu was 17 at the time the crime he was alleged of committing took place. Cantu was convicted of capital murder, and in 1993, the Texas teen was executed. About 12 years after his death, investigations show that Cantu likely didn’t commit the murder. The lone eyewitness recanted his testimony, and Cantu’s co-defendant later admitted he allowed his friend to be falsely accused. He says Cantu wasn’t even there the night of the murder.


3. Larry Griffin—Griffin was put to death in 1995 for the 1981 murder of Quintin Moss, a Missouri drug dealer. Griffin always maintained his innocence, and now, evidence seems to indicate he was telling the truth. The first police officer on the scene now says the eyewitness account was false, even though the officer supported the claims during the trial. Another eyewitness who was wounded during the attack was never contacted during the trial, and he says Griffin wasn’t present at the crime scene that night.


4. Carlos DeLuna—In 1989, DeLuna was executed for the stabbing of a Texas convenience store clerk. Almost 20 years later, Chicago Tribune uncovered evidence that shows DeLuna was likely innocent. The evidence showed that Carlos Hernandez, a man who even confessed to the murder many times, actually did the crime.


5. David Wayne Spence—Spence was put to death in 1997 for the murder of three teenagers in Texas. He was supposedly hired by a convenience store clerk to kill someone else, but he allegedly killed the wrong people by mistake.




The supervising police lieutenant said “I do not think David Spence committed this crime.” The lead homicide detective agreed, saying “My opinion is that David Spence was innocent. Nothing from the investigation ever led us to any evidence that he was involved.”


6. Jesse Tafero—In 1976, Tafero was convicted of murdering a state trooper. He and Sonia Jacobs were both sentenced to death for the crime. The main evidence used to convict them was testimony by someone else who was involved in the crime, ex-convict Walter Rhodes. Rhodes gave this testimony in exchange for a life sentence. In 1990, Tafero was put to death. Two years later, his companion Jacobs was released due to a lack of evidence…the same evidence used to put Tafero to death.


7 & 8. Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin— The oldest case on this list dates back to 1915. The Griffin brothers, two black men, were convicted of the murder of a white man. The reason they were convicted is because Monk Stevenson, another black man suspected of committing the murder, pointed to the brothers as having been responsible. He later admitted the reason he blamed them is because they were wealthy, and he assumed they had the money to beat the charges. The Griffin brothers were completely innocent, but they were put to death nonetheless.

8 People Who Were Executed and Later Found Innocent - AvvoStories

It’d be nice to think our judicial system is totally infallible, but unfortunately, that’s just not the case. Innocent people are convicted of crimes they

stories.avvo.com

comrade stalin
moscow

Doing away with appropriate punishments for crimes just because some people were innocently convicted and made to serve those punishments is stupid.

 

[mark francis]

Why do we kill people to tell people that killing people is wrong? Did Jesus recommend the death penalty?

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Why do people think they have the right to punish crime? Because justice demands it.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

The death penalty is not much of a deterrent, because by the time the convicted person is executed, almost no one remembers what he did or when the crime occurred. And there have been way too many executions of men who were actually innocent. Of course, most people who commit premeditated do not think they will be caught.

Again, did Jesus recommend the death penalty? No, he did not.

 

[mark francis]

The death penalty is not much of a deterrent, because by the time the convicted person is executed, almost no one remembers what he did or when the crime occurred. And there have been way too many executions of men who were actually innocent. Of course, most people who commit premeditated do not think they will be caught.

Again, did Jesus recommend the death penalty? No, he did not.

Dummycrap logic: Some people may be wrongly convicted and executed so nobody should be convicted and executed. Corollary: After a few years in prison all violent offenders should be paroled because most people cannot even remember why they are in prison anymore.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

Dummycrap logic: Some people may be wrongly convicted and executed so nobody should be convicted and executed. Corollary: After a few years in prison all violent offenders should be paroled because most people cannot even remember why they are in prison anymore.

So you are fine with innocent people being executed.
No one is advocating paroling anyone here.

 

[mark francis]

So you are fine with innocent people being executed.
No one is advocating paroling anyone here.

I am opposed to doing away with laws and sentences against evil works just because some people may be wrongly convicted and sentenced.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

I am opposed to doing away with laws and sentences against evil works just because some people may be wrongly convicted and sentenced.

The death sentence is irreversible, so it is not like other falsely applied punishments. States that have a death penalty have higher murder rates than those that do not, so it is not a deterrent. O=It is just cruel revenge, applied almost always to poor ad minority members that have been assigned poor lawyers.

Executing a murderer 20 years after the murder cannot be a useful deterrent.

 

[mark francis]

The death sentence is irreversible, so it is not like other falsely applied punishments. States that have a death penalty have higher murder rates than those that do not, so it is not a deterrent. O=It is just cruel revenge, applied almost always to poor ad minority members that have been assigned poor lawyers.

Executing a murderer 20 years after the murder cannot be a useful deterrent.

Democrats do not want cold blooded killers executed for several reasons, none of which has anything to do with justice for them victim's families.