UNDERNEWS: Trump wants to add death penalty to drug punishments

February 15, 2023

Trump wants to add death penalty to drug punishments

Independent - Donald Trump has a new issue at the centre of his third bid for the White House: killing drug dealers... A new piece on the inner deliberations of Trumpworld from Rolling Stone reveals that Donald Trump is making the death penalty — specifically, expanding its use in America — a centre point of his flagging 2024 campaign. According to several sources close to the former president who spoke with the magazine, Mr Trump is putting energy behind the idea of widely expanding the death penalty to make drug offences eligible for capital punishment... The former president is said by aides to also be discussing the possibility of launching a political effort to reintroduce firing squads to the US justice system, apparently due to their flashy nature.

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