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Should drug traffickers receive the death penalty?

Since 1999, the executions of drug smugglers have become more common in Indonesia, Iran, China and Pakistan. In March 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed executing drug traffickers to fight his country’s opioid epidemic. 32 countries impose the death penalty for drug smuggling. Seven of these countries (China, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore) routinely execute drug offenders. Asia and the Middle East’s tough approach contrasts with many Western countries who have legalized cannabis in recent years (selling cannabis in Saudi Arabia is punished by beheading).

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Yes
97%
No
1%
Yes
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No
1%
Yes, but only if they are repeated offenders
8%
No, I do not believe in the death penalty
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Yes, but only if there is proof someone died from the drugs they trafficked
1%
No, sentence them to life in prison without parole instead
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Yes, as long as they are given a fair trial

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 @9RZ5GZ6from Missouri  answered…4mos4MO

No, but depending on the severity and if they are a repeat offender, they should be given lengthy sentences

 @9NVRQCKanswered…6mos6MO

Yes, but only if that person can be proven beyond doubt that the drugs they trafficked led to the deaths of others.

 @9NRRQCCanswered…6mos6MO

Only when it can be proven, that they added deadly substances to the drugs, thereby causing a death or deaths.

 @9JQ2KY4from Michigan  answered…10mos10MO

let them be and have their punishment be to only eat cheeseburgers for 2 years and also cheeseburger

 @9JNC66Qanswered…10mos10MO

Only if public security is under a big danger, for example for fentanyl traffickers. Drug dealers that sell to kids should receive death penalty.

 @9DX7LCKanswered…1yr1Y

Yes, but for mostly hard drugs. No, but for mostly zaza.

 @9DLJ5FCfrom Georgia  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but only for synthetic narcotics.

 @8ZXQ4JFanswered…3yrs3Y

Abolish drug restrictions.

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 @MercifulFr33m4rket from Florida submitted…9mos9MO

Mexican Drug Cartels Expand Under "Hugs, Not Bullets" Policy

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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