Brilliant Ideas
posted by gyma
Just another one of Newt's brilliant ideas:
Before Newt Gingrich left Congress, he sponsored a piece of legislation that ought to haunt him to this day: the Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996. Had it passed, anyone convicted of bringing drugs into the United States above a modest threshold -- more than two ounces of marijuana, for example -- would have automatically been imprisoned for life. Repeat offenders would be executed.
Ezra Klein claims this harsh penalty would apply to those bringing into the U.S. two ounces or more of marijuana.
Sounds about right.
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