Sessions outlines when to use death penalty on Pharmaceutical Execs
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday issued new guidance to federal prosecutors on how to apply the death penalty to numerous drug-related crimes.
Sessions advised federal prosecutors to utilize laws permitting capital punishment as a viable sentence, both in violent and non-violent cases.
In the memo sent to U.S. attorneys Wednesday morning, Sessions said that some of the “appropriate cases” to seek the death penalty include murder related to racketeering crimes, gun deaths occurring during drug trafficking crimes and murder related to criminal enterprise.
The memo also encouraged prosecutors to pursue capital punishment in cases involving “dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs.”
According to the U.S. statutes, an “extremely large” quantity of drugs means distributing at least 600 times the amount of a given substance that would bring penalties of five to 40 years in prison.
I take this all to mean that Sessions will be seeking the death penalty for Pharmaceutical Executives.
Cool! The opioid epidemic goes straight back to the manufacturers and the executives who unleashed this plague on the nation. All for the relief of pain, all against the way opioids have been used ,prescribed and marketed. It did not have to be this way.
@jason. Dear god, man. This isn’t China! ~ Leonard McCoy
It did not have to be this way. But at least now we have a strong ruler… I mean leader who can do the important work that needs doing, like having all the Executives responsible for the opioid epidemic rounded up and killed.
That’s what he intends, right?