In March 2018, President Trump asked the Justice department to seek more death-penalty cases against drug traffickers. Trump announced the proposal as part of a plan to combat the opioid epidemic which is claiming the lives of more than 100 people a day in the U.S. In 1988 the federal government passed a drug law which imposed the death penalty on drug “kingpins” who commit murder in the course of their business. Analysts estimate that this law has resulted in only a few executions. 32 countries impose the death penalty for drug smuggling. Seven of these countries (China, Indone…
Read more25% Yes |
75% No |
13% Yes |
64% No |
6% Yes, but only if there is proof someone died from the drugs they trafficked |
6% No, sentence them to life in prison without parole instead |
4% Yes, as long as they are given a fair trial |
5% No, I do not believe in the death penalty |
2% Yes, but only if they are repeated offenders |
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@8D7X8VB4yrs4Y
No, but drugs should be legal and regulated like other substances (alcohol and Tabaco).
@8LZGZS83yrs3Y
No, but life in prison depending on the drug
@cryingleftist3yrs3Y
Not necessarily, they should have the choice of life in prison or the death penalty.
@8G6F94N4yrs4Y
No, unless he/she has also committed violent crimes such as attempted murder, or first degree murder, or in any other way seriously injures someone as a result of doing
@9CYQ6J79mos9MO
Yes, and increase punishment for drug dealers
@97N2MHC1yr1Y
No give them 20-30 years instead.
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Iran executed a “staggering” total of at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015 as capital punishment surged in the Islamic republic, two rights groups said yesterday.The number of executions, which Iran has carried out by hanging in recent years, was up about 43 percent from 2022.It marked only the second time in two decades that more than 800 executions were recorded in a year, after 972 executions in 2015, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said in the joint report.“Of particular concern is the dramatic escalation in the number of drug-related executions in 2023, which rose to 471 people, more than 18 times higher than the figures recorded in 2020,” the report said.Members of ethnic minorities, notably the Sunni Baluch from the southeast of Iran, are “grossly overrepresented amongst those executed” on drug-related charges, it said.At least 167 members of the Baluch minority were executed in total, accounting for 20 percent of the total executions last year, even though the minority accounts for only about 5 percent of Iran’s population.Saudi Arabia executed 100 people in 2023.The United States executed 24 people in 2023.
@AlerteXecutive2mos2MO
Here’s what children need to know:There is a poison killing 200 Americans of all ages, backgrounds, and races every single day. It’s called fentanyl. Most kids who die from it don’t even know they are taking it.Drug dealers are selling fake pills, cocaine, and meth with fentanyl to…
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Gangs affiliated with Mexico’s two largest drug cartels—battling to the death over market share—have grown in number and influence since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018. He eased up under a policy he called “hugs, not bullets.” Arrests by Mexico’s national guard, created under López Obrador to replace federal police, fell to 2,800 in 2022 from 21,700 in 2018, according to the national statistics agency.More than 200 criminal gangs are engaged in turf wars compared with 76 in 2010, according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank that studies violent conflicts worldwide. Most of the disputes involve the Sinaloa or Jalisco cartels, among the world’s largest criminal organizations and the top traffickers of fentanyl—the low-cost, high-margin synthetic opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans a year.Criminal gangs behind the U.S. drug epidemic are seeing accelerated growth, commanding greater control over more territory in Mexico, where they are largely free to murder rivals, neuter police, seize property and strong-arm municipalities into giving them public contracts.In December, farmers from a village in the state of Mexico attacked local cartel members with machetes and sickles, revolting against demands they each pay as much as $600 to work their own land, authorities said. The fight killed 10 gang members and four farmers.
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