Monday, March 12, 2018

TRUMP WANTS DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS

Since we sentence a murderer to death for killing one person, why do we not have the death penalty for someone who kills 5,000 people?

At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania Saturday, Trump said:

“Do you think the drug dealers who kill thousands of people during their lifetime, do you think they care who’s on a blue-ribbon committee? The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness. When you catch a drug dealer, you’ve got to put him away for a long time. If someone goes and shoots somebody, kills somebody they get the death penalty, a drug dealer will kill 2,000 to 5,000 people during the course of his life.”.

When Trump mentioned a blue-ribbon committee, he was referring to the Commission on School Safety that will be formed to study ways of preventing school shootings.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte deals harshly with drug dealers and users by doing away with them in extra judicial killings … no due process, no court trials. With thousands of dealers and users killed by the police and approved vigilante groups, the popular president’s way of reducing the Filipino drug problem has been very effective. But Duterte has been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. To that, Rodrigo says fuck ’em!

While I believe applying the death penalty to large-scale drug dealers is a good idea, it ain’t a gonna fly in this country. Because there are so many of these drug dealers, we would have to construct several special death row prisons where those sentences to death would roost for years while their appeals would work their way through the judicial system.

By the time you add up the cost of trial and appeals, and the cost of housing on death row during those lengthy appeals, in most cases the total would exceed the amount of money made by the condemned drug dealer.

Good idea, going nowhere. This ain’t the Philippines.

1 comment:

Trey Rusk said...

I agree it is a good idea going no where. President Trump mentioned the idea at the Pa. rally to great support from the audience. So as far as the idea goes, Trump wins big by mentioning it.