It is not a good idea, but not because the distributing drug dealers don't deserve it.
There have been enough examples of wrongly convicted people to bring the judicial certainty that is required for capital punishment into question. There clearly have been miscarriages in our system of justice.
The underlying social problems of the drug culture are not amenable to an easy fix.
You don't have to look very far to find people caught up in self-destructive behaviours within family or one's circle of close friends.
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