The Hill
President Trump said Monday he would direct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for kidnappers of Nancy Guthrie if the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is found dead.
In a brief phone interview with the New York Post, the president said consequences for the kidnappers would be “very, very severe — the most severe” if they kill the older Guthrie, who was abducted from her Arizona home just more than two weeks ago.
When pressed on whether the Justice Department would request the death penalty in the case, Trump told the Post, “The most, yeah — that’s true.”
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