Drug Dealers Deserve the Capital Punishment. Speech Presentation

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Drug Dealers Deserve the Capital Punishment
In 2016, an opioid overdose crisis claimed a staggering number of 64,000 people (Serrano). This statistics shows how serious the drug problem has worsened compared to the AIDS epidemic. Opioid overdose has contributed to the increasing numbers of deaths in the United States and reduced the overall life expectancy. Today, morgues are overflowing with countless bodies as numbers of orphaned children keep soaring at the foster care homes. Government efforts to stop this problem through the provision of rehabilitation services, high-tech solutions to curb the menace, and lawsuits targeting drug traffickers have not realized the expected results. The only solution to the problem of drugs would be to have drug traffickers, who have made money out of this business, face the harshest death penalty to save thousands of people affected by the menace.
According to President Trump, the problem remains to be the drug traffickers who kill thousands of people and destroying families. According to Trump, the culprits must face death penalty or life imprisonment for their crimes (Bacon). Drug traffickers make so much money out of the trade as innocent Americans are dying and losing their families. Countries such as Singapore have a zero-tolerance to the problem of drugs (Bacon). In the United States, there have been blue ribbon committees meeting all times without coming up with resolutions to end the problem of drugs in the country. While some countries such as Philippines have very tough penalties that have seen the problem of drugs sequestered, America has remained lax on this serious issue. In Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte personally shot and killed at least three drug trafficking suspects althou...