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“You kill somebody, or if you kill a police officer, law enforcement officer — death penalty.”In 1981, the D.C. Council repealed the death penalty and in 1992 residents voted down a referendum to reinstate capital punishment, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC.) “It’s capital, capital, capital.”“People come in from Iowa to look at the Lincoln Memorial and they end up getting killed,” he continued, apparently referring to a crime that there is no record of occurring. Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty, and in an additional four states, governors have instituted moratoriums on executions. “Calls for more death penalty is another way of invoking the Trump Administration’s authoritarian agenda.