US President, Donald Trump has praised other countries for imposing the death penalty or life in prison for drug dealers, saying the United States should consider similar penalties. The US President who addressed Republican supporters outside Pittsburgh after arriving in western Pennsylvania on Saturday night to rally support from state Rep. Rick Saccone ahead of Tuesday's special congressional election for a seat in the heart of America's steel industry was quoted by CNN as saying;
"I think it's a discussion we have to start thinking about. I don't know if we're ready -- I don't know if this country's ready for it".
He said those convicted of killing just one person in shootings and stabbings at times face the death penalty or life in prison without parole. But, he said, someone can "kill 5,000 people with drugs because you're smuggling them in and you're making a lot of money and people are dying," and go without serious punishment.
"That's why we have a problem, folks. I don't think we should play games. Now, I never did polling on that -- I don't know if that's popular, I don't know if that's unpopular. But these people are killing our kids and they're killing our families, and we have to do something. We can't just keep setting up blue-ribbon committees with your wife and your wife and your husband, and they meet and they have a meal and they talk, talk talk talk, two hours later, then they write a report."
