A special education teacher who is running for mayor in the city of Sylacauga is asking for drug dealers to be publically hanged as a form of punishment.
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The mayoral candidate Michael Ray James,59, has used his campaign to propose that public hangings should be enforced to drug dealers who are repeat offenders and have promoted the idea on his campaign’s official Facebook page. In one of the posts, he claims he is well aware that public hangings are “extreme” but it will bring attention to the city:
“Please consider that Drug Dealers have murdered, for profit, approximately 1,000,000 teenagers, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles in a short 20 year period. Yes, I’m very aware public hanging is extreme and totally not possible without Federal Approvals and not from city or state officials. Extreme yes, but definitely brings attention to this scourge on Sylacauga,.”
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He continues to say that his proposal will be opposed due to federal law and believes drug dealers should be punished to the fullest extent of the law:
“I am serious about, after somebody has been convicted three times, I am very serious about them losing their life, whether it’s to lethal injection or hanging,”
James considers himself as a conservative who believes in pro-life activism and wants to bring the city to a higher standard.
Source: AL.com