Monday, March 19, 2018

Dealers Penalty

From the BBC:
"Trump urges death penalty for drug dealers"

US President Donald Trump has called for drug traffickers to face the death penalty as part of his plan to combat the US painkiller-addiction epidemic. He outlined the capital punishment plan during a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, a state hard hit by the opioid crisis. Mr Trump is also set to announce measures to tackle over-prescription and insufficient access to treatment. The epidemic claimed 63,600 Americans' lives in 2016, say US health officials. Mr Trump was cheered on Monday as he told a crowd: "If we don't get tough on the drug dealers we're wasting our time, and that toughness includes the death penalty." Some 2.4 million Americans are estimated to be addicted to opioids, a class of drugs that includes prescription painkillers and heroin. Mr Trump previously suggested the "ultimate" punishment for traffickers at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. 

^ I think the death penalty should be used in cases of: rape, murder, terrorism and for drug dealers and other criminals that go "over-board" in their crimes. A drug dealer selling a few ounces shouldn't be put to death, but a drug dealer that sells kilos upon kilos of drugs (especially those also involved in international drug dealing, intra-state drug dealing, etc.) Those kinds of high-end drug dealers tend to also be involved in violent crimes, gun smuggling, human trafficking, etc. ^



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