Trump to ask for tougher penalties for opioid trafficking — but no change in death penalty

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/18/trump-ask-tougher-penalties-opioid-trafficking-but-no-change-death-penalty/436643002/

WASHINGTON — President Trump will ask the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for drug traffickers — but won't seek to change the law that allows capital punishment for drug traffickers only when they're convicted of murder, White House officials said Sunday.

So I guess all this news that he would seek the death penalty was just fake news.

[Applewood]

The other outlets are still saying, death penalty, so who knows?

Anyway, I doubt the death penalty would past muster with the courts.