Chip Roy Proposes Death Penalty for Drug Dealers Responsible for Fentanyl Deaths

GOP Eyes Death Penalty for Fentanyl Sale, as DOJ Calls for More Executions

Under a proposed amendment to the Controlled Substances Act, defendants in federal overdose cases could face the death penalty for selling fentanyl involved in the victim’s death. Though the legislation is hardly the first to propose capital punishment for people who sell drugs, it arrives into a very different political landscape than its predecessors—one of unprecedented interest in the federal death penalty. The Deal Death, Face Death Act was…

Republican Pushes for Harsher Penalty in Fentanyl Deaths - Patriot Newsfeed

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is introducing legislation that would allow the death penalty for fentanyl dealers whose drugs directly cause a person’s death, escalating the Republican push for harsher punishment amid the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis. Roy’s proposal, titled the Deal Death, Face Death Act, would amend federal law to permit capital punishment in cases where someone knowingly distributes fentanyl or fentanyl-laced drugs and a user dies …

Republican Pushes for Harsher Penalty in Fentanyl Deaths

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is introducing legislation that would allow the death penalty for fentanyl dealers whose drugs directly cause a person’s death, escalating the Republican push for harsher punishment amid the nation’s ongoing opioid crisis. Roy’s proposal, titled the Deal Death, Face Death Act, would amend federal law to permit capital punishment in cases...

Chip Roy proposes death penalty for drug dealers responsible for fentanyl deaths

Texas congressman Chip Roy introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for anyone who distributes fentanyl or other drugs mixed with fentanyl that results in a person's death.

Fentanyl deaths could now cost drug dealers their lives under new GOP proposal

Rep. Chip Roy is unveiling the the Deal Death, Face Death Act, a bill proposing the death penalty for those who knowingly distribute fentanyl-laced drugs that result in death.

Rep. Chip Roy introduces new death penalty bill targeting fentanyl dea

Federal drug raid in Los Angeles targets open-air drug market in MacArthur Park Fox News correspondent Matt Finn reports live from Los Angeles on a massive federal drug raid in MacArthur Park, a notorious open-air drug market controlled by gangs. Agents seized 40 pounds of fentanyl, enough for 190,000 fatal doses, valued at $8-10 million. U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli criticizes California’s failed drug polici…