I will concede that those that peddle hard drugs cause great harm to society. But is the death penalty an effective deterrent? We have an ever growing opiod crisis here in the States, and the death penalty is still in full effect alot of places. Same with felonious murder; we see periodic spikes related to drug activity. Death penalty never went anywhere during that time.

Besides the moral implications of the death penalty, the amount of error in the legal system prevents me from thinking the death penalty is a sound option. Lock em up. Put them to work even, to repay that debt to society, in a more meaningful way than sitting in a cell. But to kill them, is the same murder society condemned.