OREANDA-NEWS The US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Donald Trump, called for the introduction of the death penalty for one crime — drug trafficking, in order to cope with the "drug epidemic" in the country. This is what TASS writes about.

As the politician noted, this is the only way to solve the problem. Trump pointed out that every drug dealer kills 500 people on average. "The only way to stop this is to introduce the death penalty for drug dealers, but I don't know if our country is ready for this," he stressed.

In 2018, Trump also proposed the death penalty for drug traffickers. He called the reduction of prescriptions for narcotic drugs another point of struggle.

On December 1, 2017, Trump donated his third quarter salary to fight the opioid crisis.