Trump hails China’s use of death penalty for drug dealers 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PressePresident Donald Trump on Friday praised China’s use of capital punishment for drug dealers, suggesting that the United States would deal better with narcotics trafficking if it put offenders to death. In China, drug dealers get “a thing called the death penalty. Last March, he suggested the United States could bring in the death penalty for drug dealers. Officials indicated there would be no attempt to change the law to make the death penalty mandatory for trafficking alone, a move that would could well run afoul of Supreme Court rulings on proportional punishment.

Source: Manila Bulletin February 15, 2019 20:37 UTC