Also, The Anti-Drug abuse act of 1998 calls for the death penalty for all drug related killings. ... In addition, The Drug Kingpin act sates the use of death penalty for convicted major drug dealers caught with huge quantities of drugs, over 66Ibs of heroin and 330Ibs of cocaine. ... "The proposed drug death penalty is not only barbaric but also foolish: a temper tantrum masquerading as an act of government. It holds no promise for suppressing the drug trade, and may even be counterproductive" (Franklin E. ... The only way to deter crime is to prevent it from happening, rather then enforcing...

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William Otis, the counsellor to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, wrote an article in 2006 by the name "Death Penalty Saves Lives", where he discusses the death penalty in the United States. ... He has a good use of all three appeal forms, pathos because of the story at the beginning, logos comes to view by the use of statistics and ethos because he is counsellor of the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S Department of Justice. ...

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Any person 16 years old or older charged with a capital offense, a Class A felony, a felony which involves the use of a deadly weapon or a felony which has as an element that causes death or serious physical injury or involving the serious physical injury, use of a dangerous instrument against a law enforcement officer, a judicial official, etc., and trafficking in drugs is tried as an adult. ... This is a prime example of too harsh a punishment that does not fit the crime; this is why each case must be handled individually. 3 There are different types of punishments for lesser juvenile cri...

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The unlawful killing is a part of their current war on drugs. The police have a policy of shooting to kill any perpetrator of drug trafficking crimes. The government is turning a blind eye on the activities of its law enforcement. ...

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The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, believes that mass executions of "27 or 30 or 35 people at a time" would be effective in the reduction of the importation of illegal drugs in to America (Taylor, 1995). ... Murphy wrote, "Like the emperor's new clothes, the flimsy notion that the death penalty is an effective law enforcement tool is being exposed as mere political puffery" (Murphy, 1995). ...

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People who are opposed to the death penalty assert that in other countries and other states where the death penalty is not used as a punishment have lower murder rates than the countries and states where the death penalty is enforced. ... Murders are usually committed in a time of passion, or by people who are under the influence of drugs and they do not carefully think about the consequences and the punishments they are going to receive. ...

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