It’s death penalty for drug dealers!
President Donald Duck Trump plans to implement the death penalty on major drug traffickers as part of his opioid crackdown in the United States, announced by the White House on Sunday.
The Department of Justice “will seek the death penalty against drug traffickers, where appropriate under current law”, said Andrew Bremberg, the White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Donald Trump is an admirer of Singapore’s tough anti-drug stance, and has been “telling friends for months that the country’s policy to execute drug traffickers is the reason its drug consumption rates are so low”.
Trump shared conversations he had with leaders of China and Singapore.
On Singapore, “I said, Mr. Prime Minister, do Singapore have a drug problem? ‘No. We have a zero tolerance policy, President.’ PM Lee said, So I asked PM Lee what does that mean? ‘That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty.’ PM Lee added”
“When I was in China and other places, by the way, I said, Mr. President, do you have a drug problem? ‘No, no, no, we do not.’ I said, Huh. Big country, 1.4 billion people, right. Not much of a drug problem. I said what do you attribute that to? ‘Well, the death penalty.’”
The official did not offer greater detail on how the death penalty could be invoked against drug dealers without amending statutes.
Trump is due to unveil his plan in a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, a state hard hit by the crisis.
Federal law already permits the death penalty for certain offenses like murder, terrorism and a large-scale drug enterprise, but capital punishment is rarely used on the federal level.
Trump also wants to increase criminal penalties for pushers of the deadly drug fentanyl that can be lethal in even small quantities.
“The president will call on Congress to pass legislation that reduces the threshold amount of drugs needed to invoke mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers who knowingly distribute certain illicit opioids, including fentanyl that are lethal in trace amounts,” said Andrew Bremberg.
Trump raised the issue of using the death penalty for drug dealers at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. He has repeatedly said individual drug dealers are responsible for thousands of deaths.
