WASHINGTON, D.C. – Convicted drug dealers could face the ultimate punishment if convicted by the federal government, which is now set to come down hard on those offenders, it was announced this week.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions described plans now in motion by federal prosecutors to battle the crushing opioid epidemic by using the most-lethal form of punishment available to them: the death penalty.
In a speech Thursday, Sessions said, “the President has ordered us to seek the death penalty in drug trafficking cases where it is appropriate to do so. And just yesterday we began implementing this order at the Department. The death penalty is available for drug dealers under Florida state law, and at the federal level it is available under certain circumstances of the kingpin statute. The people’s representatives have voted for these laws because they intend for us to use them.”
His remarks came days after President Donald Trump told a crowd that the death penalty will be used to “get tough on the drug dealers … or we are wasting our time” in the battle against those crimes and opioid addiction.
Sessions claimed that “drug traffickers show no respect for human dignity … as surely as night follows day, violence and death follow drug trafficking.”
The Justice Department plans to be “aggressive … we will prosecute the most serious, readily-provable offense we can.”
“We cannot allow drug dealers to walk our streets thinking that they will get away with their crimes or that they will only get a slap on the wrist,” Sessions continued. “They need to know that this administration will not hesitate to pursue the maximum sentences allowed by law, including the death penalty.”
Why don’t they execute pedophiles they are the worst of the worst aren’t they!?
This country thinks they can “love” problems away. Currently to many people are not obeying the law. Drugs and the sale of them are a scourge on family’s and American culture. The death penalty may seem extreme for some, but the human toll and suffering Drug Dealers cause with no end in sight to the suffering and pain, I don’t have a problem with the death penalty. Yes there are some members in my own family that could be part of this punishment. My kids, your kids, my brothers, your brothers don’t matter. I am sick of the shit they do and then they run off for treatment when they get in trouble only to go back and do it all again and again and again.
It’s time to put a stop to Drug Dealing!!!! Period.
The Justice System is what’s messed up. There are a lot of innocent people who plead guilty because they don’t have the money for a decent attorney to fight their cases without going bankrupt. And most of the Public Defenders that are appointed to their cases want their clients to take plea deals just so they don’t have to deal with the court system.
Execution is not the answer. Maybe extreme Treatment Centers could be.
You too are the reason there are so many drug dealers. Treatment is a bunch of bullshit. Been there and done that with many different family members and friends. I have listened to the lingo and it’s all bull shit. Drug and alcohol addiction is nothing more than immaturity and an excuse to be an asshole.
The justice system is screwed up because of all the love and bleeding hearts people that want to “fix” the jerks with some stupid ass program that don’t work anyway.
The only kind of “extreme” treatment that I will agree to is sentencing them to breaking rocks on a rock pile all day for 3 to 5 years and then if they repeat their bullshit I would give them the death penalty.
Don’t be taking your frustration out on me. You are WRONG in blaming me for the reason just because you don’t like my opinion. You don’t know me from Adam. I respect your opinion however, I disagree with you. There are right treatment centers and there are wrong ones. This is the reason I used the word extreme. Apparently, your family and friends were in the wrong ones.
I hope you don’t get arrested for something you didn’t do because I would hate to see you have to break rocks for three to five years because you could not afford a legal team.
I have been involved in every kind and type of treatment there is. I have sat on the Board of Directors and been elected board chairman. I have raised 10s of thousands of dollars for those that can’t afford treatment. I speak from a lifetime of experience.
What the general public don’t know or get is, drugs and alcohol keep people from maturing. While there are those that escape the bonds most have had brain damage that keeps them from ever grasping reality. To make matters worse they bear offspring with genetic defects caused by their substance abuse. None of this is ever explained outside the treatment world. If you want to see the effects of offspring induced challenged children visit homes for mentally challenged kids and adults. There not hard to find, there all over and we are paying for them.
My experience teaches me the only deterrent is misery. Also there are models that treat people that do work but the United States don’t subscribe to these models.
Treatment aside, unless we make the punishment for selling drugs much much stiffer we are not going to solve this scourge. Sadly, many of those that are selling (and using) drugs have “no conscience”. There is NO treatment for that. There IS a deterrent if you can scare them into believing they will get that punishment.
I am not frustrated at all. I am tired of bleeding hearts thinking they know the answers and they don’t. I am not looking the other way because of their ignorance or (stupidity).
Nothing is going to change until we get tough!
Can you provide us with any evidence for your claims? You don’t seem to be a person who would sit on a board or be a board chairman because your views are not mainstream. What were you addicted to and how did you break that addiction? What area was that in? Who did you raise money for? How long have you been in treatment?
Pay no attention to Bodacious. She claims to have been a teacher too but won’t show any evidence of that. Old teach is just a shit disturber and not worth your time. I like your post.
Thank you for sharing this with me. Believe it or not there are a lot of things I agree with you on, but not all. I have no doubt you helped more people then you realize, and I thank you for that. When your occupation starts to get to you it is time to get out to keep your sanity.
When I say extreme treatment, I mean where these people can get examined from head to toe by professionals and put them on the right recovery plan. I don’t believe a 90-day stint is enough. I believe a two-year minimum and a maximum to be determined. I know many people may disagree with me because of the cost, but if you think about all the appeals that come with the death penalty cases the cost could amount to about the same.
The question is whether or not he will hold the drug companies accountable for their dealing.
People better be careful what they wish for because some of these people could be your own relatives, and you may not even know it.
Funny! A Pro-lifer want to execute.
To be fair one is a baby in a womb that has no control and has made no decisions about his/her life and the other is an adult that has had a lifetime to make choices. You can’t compare the two
A life is a life no matter what view finder you want to look through.
I suppose that is true. But it’s what one does with that life that matters, that has consequence. A baby is innocent. Al Capone wasn’t. Pablo Escobar wasn’t. Joaquin Guzman wasn’t. Griselda blanco wasn’t….see where I’m headed.
Yes, I do see where your headed. You are trying to compare these people to people you don’t even know or the reason behind their conviction.
Lol how can you see anything with your head up your ass? A baby is not a drug dealer. A baby has more rights than a criminal. At least they should have. Maybe not in your f$cked sense of what’s right and wrong. I think you need to re-examine your moral compass.
Going to be a lot of liberals gone.
And Rush Limbaugh
You are a True Dumb Ass!
Anyone who advocates for executing someone for what amounts to a personal libertarian choices is an enemy of mankind, and deserves the death penalty himself. Trump is a ghoulish fiend, like his Filipino buddy Duterte. There’s a special spot in hell waiting for these scumbags. But first he needs to get sent there. What a total POS.
He should do the world a favor and start with IDIOTS like you.
Come on now, be nice
The POS here is Dump Trump. You care only for yourself! Drug dealers are lazy and want to make easy money at the expense of other people’s misery.
Trump is spot on. It’s time people like you get your head out of your ass.
I wonder if this applies to big pharmacy as well. They are the true reason there is an opioid crisis. Besides, the war on drugs has failed for decades. Now they think putting “street” drug dealers to death they will fix it. They’re sorely mistaken. As quickly as they take one dealer out two more fill the spot. And they get the opioids from big pharma. Decriminalize, regulate, tax…these are the tools that will ultimately win the battle against the crime associated with drugs.
No big pharma executions. Only Hispanic and black men qualify.
you talk silly
Stupid is not silly.
Aren’t Hispanics and blacks the ones that Obama let out of jail? Bodie the patriot. Make America better.