In Trump's first appearance in D.C. since he left the White House, he said that convicted drug dealers should be sentenced to death.
Former President Donald Trump called for measures to strengthen the police state and said that convicted drug dealers should be sentenced to death at a rally on Tuesday, his first appearance in Washington, D.C. since his departure from the White House.Trump told the audience of his loyalistsTrump falsely claimed that the implementation of such a policy would act as a deterrent, and would result in a decrease of drug-related crimes in the U.S.
“If you look at countries throughout the world, the ones that don’t have a drug problem are ones that institute a very quick trial death penalty sentence for drug dealers,” he said. The former president’s claims contradict decades of research and data on the death penalty. Numerous studies havethat capital punishment deters people from engaging in criminal behavior, as well as the argument that longer prison sentences reduce crime.
“We’re very hard pressed to find really strong evidence of deterrence,” Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey FaganSome studies have demonstrated that the abolition of the death penalty would be far more effective in reducing violent crime. One study from 2019 showed that murder rates
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