President Donald Trump is demanding the death penalty for all murders in Washington, D.C. despite capital punishment being banned in the capital more than 40 years ago.

The president made his declaration during a rambling Cabinet meeting on Tuesday as his administration carried out its crime crackdown in the nation’s capital with the deployment of the National Guard.

“Anybody murders something in the capital, capital punishment,” Trump said randomly in the middle of the meeting. “If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we’re going to be seeking the death penalty.”

The declaration is likely to ruffle feathers in the nation’s capital further, as capital punishment faces a unique situation in the city.

Washington formally repealed the death penalty law in 1981. In 19

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