Donald Trump suggests death penalty for drug traffickers in US

US President Donald Trump suggested that the US should follow the example of other countries that impose the death penalty on drug traffickers.

Speaking at a White House summit on the opioid epidemic on Thursday, Trump threatened to sue companies that manufacture painkillers with an eye toward halting the opioid addiction epidemic in US.

He said that some countries levy extremely harsh penalties



-- including the death penalty -- on "drug pushers and drug dealers" adding that "by the way, (those countries) have much less of a drug problem than we do. 

"So we're going to have to be very strong on penalties," Efe quoted Trump as saying.

Trump delivered his remarks after spending months telling "certain friends" that he thinks the US should execute all drug traffickers, as Singapore does.