Drug Dealers - Death Penalty?

[Kutnupe14]

I'm all for an expedited death penalty for pedophiles, rapists, drug dealers and murderers. 1 appeal within a reasonable amount of time and if you're still found guilty, smell ya later.

I don't believe prison rehabilitates and honestly, they're a burden on their families.

One of these things is unlike the other. Do you not see the significant difference between one versus the three others?

 

[Itchytriggerfinger]

One of these things is unlike the other. Do you not see the significant difference between one versus the three others?

I do not.

 

[luger fan]

I voted unsure.

There are currently 32 or 33 countries that impose capital punishment for drug crimes depending on where you look. In some countries it is mandatory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_drug_trafficking

While none of those countries are at the top of my vacation list. Their STRICT laws do work. Drugs, rape, assault, theft and attacks against children don't exist.

 

[KLB]

While none of those countries are at the top of my vacation list. Their STRICT laws do work. Drugs, rape, assault, theft and attacks against children don't exist.

You honestly believe that?

 

[MCgrease08]

What kind of drugs are we talking about? Is a kid caught selling pot in her dorm room going to be executed? Sounds kind of harsh to me.

 

[1775usmarine]

This poll is skewed where's the bacon?

 

[Kutnupe14]

I do not.

I have not heard of a kid going up to an older person and saying "sexually molest me."
I have not heard a person walk up to someone and say "forcibly rape me."
I have not heard of a person asking another to kill them against their wishes

I have heard of, and witnessed, many times over, people approaching others, and asking to sell them drugs.

 

[KLB]

I have NOT heard of a kid going up to an older person and saying "sexually molest me."
I have not heard a person walk up to someone and say "forcibly rape me."
I have not heard of a person asking another to kill them against their wishes

I have heard of, and witnessed, many times over, people approaching others, and asking to sell them drugs.

You missed a not Kut.

 

[Kutnupe14]

You missed a not Kut.

Thanks, fixed

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I would only support capital punishment for drug dealers on the condition that they could, at the very least, give jail time for driving slow in the left lane.

 

[KLB]

I would only support capital punishment for drug dealers on the condition that they could, at the very least, give jail time for driving slow in the left lane.

That is a compromise I might be willing to entertain.

 

[Bfish]

I have not heard of a kid going up to an older person and saying "sexually molest me."
I have not heard a person walk up to someone and say "forcibly rape me."
I have not heard of a person asking another to kill them against their wishes

I have heard of, and witnessed, many times over, people approaching others, and asking to sell them drugs.

This is spot on. Unless there is murder going on over the drug deals or something of that nature it's hard to see death as the right option. However, I polled unsure. In most instances no, in some maybe.

 

[Tanfodude]

Actually, any violent crime that are absolute convictions.

 

[chubbs]

Now if I had my way with people sellin' dope
I'd take a big tall tree and a short piece of rope
I'd hang 'em up high and let 'em swing 'til the sun goes down… Charlie Daniels "Simple Man"

 

[Crittersdad]

It'll probably be discussed on this thread longer than it will actually be discussed. This country hardly has an appetite for the death penalty for really heinous crimes, I doubt there is any serious appetite for this.

So true my friend so true

 

[SirLiftsALatte]

Unconstitutional. Although I'm not sure why we would expect someone (Trump) who apparently doesn't care about infringing on the 2nd amendment to care about infringing on the 8th. When are we going to realize that prohibition never works? And that the War on Drugs has only resulted in growing the size and power of the .gov intrusion into our lives? To say nothing of the billions of wasted taxpayer dollars.

 

[BugI02]

From a legal standpoint, unless the dealer can be shown to have deliberately added something like fentanyl to heroin in amounts intended solely to cause death; it seems we are talking at most Involuntary Manslaughter (perhaps INGO lawyers will weigh in here with their greater knowledge) and the death penalty would almost never be on the table under existing law

From a Christian standpoint, especially with respect to not administering Narcan, I would find any decision to cut short a life where, if we had not done so, that person may have found salvation is extremely fraught. Many of the victims are hurtling towards death on their own, they don't need our help to die; they need our help to find a reason to live

 

[Jludo]

Which drug dealers are you going to go after?
I'm against it but if you're looking for a culprit synthetic opioids kill more people than heroin in this country.
Legalize the less harmful drugs like weed and psychedelics and see if that curbs some of the appetite for the more harmful ones like opioids and alcohol.

 

[amboy49]

Without too much tongue in cheek in my answer, why not eliminate the drug dealer. The liberals should not have much to disagree with in that statement. My reasoning is that many liberals believe that guns should be eliminated because they are “responsible” for the death of others. In the same vein, it is not the drugs that kill, it is the dealer that supplies them.

Or perhaps my thinking is 180 degrees backwards. Since the drugs kill, perhaps we should outla them. Oh. . . . . . wait.

 

[Jludo]

I hate the liberal vs conservative narrative, the sooner we get over it the better.