Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
by throw16180339 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:08PM
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Singapore can do this because they're a city state without jury trials, a bill of rights, or the Kennedy v. Louisiana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_v._Louisiana) decision. It's doubtful that the Supreme Court would allow a similar policy. If they did then the cost of appeals make this approach too expensive to implement it.
Yeah, executing drug dealers/smugglers at scale would require significant and likely negative rollbacks to our system of jurisprudence. The US used to do things like this though!
(I say likely negative because a system of trials that didn't cost 100k+ and take years for an actual defense would be a dramatic improvement)
Not to mention "works" and "worth it" are not quite the same thing.