Chip Roy, a representative for Texas, promotes a bill called “Dealing with Death, Confronting Death” Act,” which requires the death penalty for people convicted of distributing fentanyl in the United States.

The Republican's approach is to amend the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 and strengthen sentencing against convicted traffickers after a trial.

Currently, said law classifies all regulated substances into one of five categories and establishes life imprisonment as the maximum penalty to sanction the distribution of such substances.

However, over the decades that justice has been resorting to said law, drugs have evolved to the point of being more destructive for those who end up getting hooked on them.

“You will be sentenced to death, if death results from the use of said substance,” Roy recently warned.

The danger of fentanyl circulating on the streets of some American cities involves thousands of citizen deaths each year, which is already considered a health crisis.

This approach has led President Donald Trump to classify drug cartels as terrorist groups.

“Every fentanyl death is avoidable, and every dealer who knowingly sells this poison has blood on hands.

Americans are fed up with weak policies while their communities are destroyed and their loved ones are buried.

The ‘Trafficking with Death, Confront Death’ Law ensures that traffickers who enter fentanyl into the country and cause a death can face the maximum punishment”, expressed Chip Roy during an interview given to the newspaper “The Hill”.

According to reports released by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 48,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses during 2024 alone.

Another aspect to highlight in the bill promoted by the Republican is that it intends to double the fines arising as a result of crimes related to fentanyl.

So far, Roy's plan consists of increasing the sanctions directed at traffickers until they are set at $2,000,000. e dollars for natural persons; as for non-individual entities it is intended to place them at $10,000,000 dollars.