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All crimes affect many, many people.  We are not necessarily aware of all of the repercussions of any crime.  Drug dealers are not locked up for life nor are most rapists, robbers, abusers, murderers, bigamists, and the list goes on.  Why not?....over crowded prisons, unavailable taxpayer dollars, and bleeding heart liberals along with their psychiatrists.

Watts

CORPUS CHRISTI — A judge on Monday sentenced an admitted Corpus Christi drug dealer to life in prison.

Korban Watts, 23, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, a first-degree felony.

District Judge Tom Greenwell chose the maximum sentence for Watts, who has a criminal history that includes several burglaries and another drug case.

Watts was arrested in September after police used a search warrant at a Gordon Street apartment. He had about $650 in his pocket and more than 100 grams of methamphetamine stashed in various places, including in an oatmeal box in the kitchen pantry, according to police reports.

He said in a written statement that the drugs were his and he usually would get one-fourth of a pound of drugs every two days or as needed.

Court records show he was sentenced in March to four years and three months in federal prison in an unrelated case for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The two terms will run at the same time.

some countries they even execute you...

Ducky

Execution...hmmmm

I agree.  Drug dealers don't pay taxes on the money that they make.  They cause the system nothing but money and time... every single thing they do costs taxpayers more and more money... the sickness they promote the amount of law enforcement we need to take care of the garbage they create... the innocent lives that are lost because of gang wars... and when they finally are incarcerated well, we have to pay for that as well.

One thing that would make a lot of difference would be if those people who are recreational pot smokers et al stopped ...  it would ease the stress.  They are contributing to the problem even if they don't think they are.

I live in British Columbia and this subject ticks me off.

Ducky

The so-called "war against drugs" has definitely been a failure!

It would be even better to trace the drug right back to the person(s) responsible for its inception.  Who's in the lab?  Who's in the field.  Eradicate the source and you eradicate everything that trickles down from there, ultimately the drug usage.
EXAMPLE:  Many years ago, we had  a horrible infestation of mosquitoes.  My dad called the pest control company, and the guy who came over identified 7 different kinds of mosquitoes milling about.  He started looking for the nests and ended up about 1/4 mile away at an egg farm.  He came back and said that after he found 4 of the 7 nests at the farm, he didn't really feel the need to look for the rest.  It was kind of "a given".
The mosquito problem was dealt with at the source....the egg farm. 

Many drug dealers learned to deal drugs on the streets and have no other way to earn an income. I have taught kids how to get out of the gutter by building and repairing appliances found in the trash. How to earn money is ways like that keeps people out of trouble. It is easier to make more money honestly than any drug dealer ever makes. Drug dealers and hookers earn just enough to barely get by. Welfare actually pays better than drug dealing because the price of dealing drugs is loss of freedom…and freedom is above price. DDs don’t see all the opportunities around them to legally earn a living. They cheat themselves out of the American Dream by beiieving that it is beyond their reach and the only way to get some of that good stuff is by some sleazy way.

why only drug dealers, there are child killers, murderers, rapists,thugs and thieves (I mean corporate) where do we stop and how much are we willing to pay to keep these crims in comparative luxury compared to the underprivileged that are mostly ignored by the mainstream

Because they really can't do anything for life, even if they're death depended on it.

not enough room in prisons.

They should all be executed, no question.

It is time that drugs were legalised, then the government would be able to generate tax income from sales. Crime would drop, and the revenue would be  used to rehabilitate addicts.

All of yall make me sick. You didnt know this man. You didnt know what he was about. U read a story and pass judgment.  Did yall know the only reason he got life is because he wouldnt take anyone else with families down with him. Or did you know the day before he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison at 23 years old he lost his only child to a terrible accident and was denied the right to say goodbye to his 2 and 1/2 year old son.  Or that this kid was never given a fair shot at life. He was born in a prison to a heroine addict mother and his family gave him up for adoption to people who never wanted him for show to look good and as soon as he became difficult turned their backs on him. He had nobody in his corner for most of his life. The streets were the only place he ever was accepted. He did what he thought he had to. Was it right no. But to be executed for it? Really? U I know these things because I am the mother of his only baby and I saw his daily struggle. I saw him want more for his life and for our baby. I have a thought u deal with half the things he has or I have and lets watch your mistakes and bad judgement be displayed for the world to see and see who wants to murder you. I am truly disgusted by the responses many of you have left and I pray for your souls. May god have mercy on your judgement day for you will need it.