I have never been pro-death penalty and I'm not going to start now. But I've also always believed this: Whatever the most severe criminal penalty is, drug dealers should get it. They should be right up there with mass murderers, because they're essentially doing the same thing. They're sowing the seeds of destroyed lives, knowing full well that's what they're doing, simply because it makes them money.
That is not very much in vogue to believe these days. People have either signed on to the moronic notion that illicit drugs are not all that harmful, or else they're clinging to the insane idea that the law should not concern itself with the distribution of these substances of death, disease, broken families and hopelessness. When you talk like a drug warrior these days you get mocked for sounding like Nancy Reagan. People snicker as they wear DARE shirts ironically. Morons dismiss the notion that "a little Mary Jane" should concern anyone.