Capital Punishment and Drug Trafficking: An Ethical Appraisal

Abstract

The people and the Government of every country are now fighting another world war which is an all embracing and a tedious one. It is the war against drug addiction and trafficking. They are using every weapon at their disposal to fight it and to also curb the rate of its followers which are the addicts and as well as to stem the tide of its propagandists which are the traffickers. Among the penal codes of every country is the law against drug trafficking. This article focuses on capital punishment and drug trafficking and their ethical appraisal. It tries to see whether capital punishment is a morally justifiable system of criminal law and justice for the offence of drug trafficking. It founds out that there are problems with the use of capital punishment for the offence of drug trafficking. The article also shows that making drug trafficking a capital offence is immoral and it is not a requirement of justice , because capital punishment appears too severe for drug trafficking.

Keywords: Drug, Addiction , Law, Capital Punishment

DOI: 10.7176/JCSD/54-04

Publication date: December 31^st 2019