The California State Senate’s Democrats have rejected a plan to allow state and local prosecutors to charge drug dealers more quickly with murder or manslaughter when Americans are killed by the drugs they sell.
On Wednesday, Democrat State Senators rejected an amendment to include “Alexandra’s Law” in Assembly Bill 2195. The law, as Breitbart News chronicled, was named after 20-year-old Alexandra Capelouto, who was poisoned and killed by fentanyl when she was sold what she believed was a pharmaceutical drug for depression and insomnia.
Alexandra’s Law will inform convicted drug dealers they can be charged with murder and manslaughter if they are convicted in California again.
The State Senate prevented Alexandra’s Law being added to the bill.
” These drug dealers poison our children,” said Melissa Melendez, State Senator (R), in a statement.
” We have people dying of fentanyl poisoning and they will never see their family again,” Melendez stated. “I tried three times to pass this, but I was unsuccessful. Now we must wait to do anything about it .”
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People opposed to the sale of illegal drugs on Snapchat participate in a rally outside the company’s headquarters to call for tighter restrictions on the popular social media app following fatal overdoses of the powerful opioid fentanyl in Santa Monica, California, June 13, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)
People opposed to the sale of illegal drugs on Snapchat participate in a rally outside the company’s headquarters to call for tighter restrictions on the popular social media app following fatal overdoses of the powerful opioid fentanyl in Santa Monica, California, June 13, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)
People opposed to the sale of illegal drugs on Snapchat participate in a rally outside the company’s headquarters to call for tighter restrictions on the popular social media app following fatal overdoses of the powerful opioid fentanyl in Santa Monica, California, June 13, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)
Fentanyl poisoning is now the leading cause of death among Americans from 18 to 45-years-old, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
For years, President Trump demanded tougher punishments for drug dealers, including the death penalty.
” If you take a look at all countries around the globe, it is clear that only those who have instituted the death penalty to drug dealers don’t seem to have any drug problems.” Trump stated last month. They’re the only ones with a problem .”
According to Breitbart News, the flow of fentanyl has increased in recent years. In Fiscal Year 2019, about 2,800 pounds of fentanyl was seized at the border. The following year, that figure capped out at 4,800 pounds of the drug seized. By Fiscal Year 2021, which represents most of President Joe Biden’s first year in office, fentanyl seizures skyrocketed to about 11,200 pounds.
In April, the CDC reported that more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the prior 12 months. Fentanyl poisoning was responsible for nearly two thirds of these deaths.
Drug Enforcement Administration official Anne Milgram has said that there was enough fentanyl trafficked into American communities in 2021, via the southern border, “to kill every American” citizen.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter here.
