Hold Drug Dealers Accountable For Death or Bodily Harm
Hold Drug Dealers Accountable For Death or Bodily Harm
The Issue
In the state of Mississippi, there is NO LAW holding drug dealers accountable for supplying a drug that results in bodily harm or death to another individual. Under Parker’s Law, these drug dealers will be held accountable and will be prosecuted!
20+ states already have this law! More than 20 states now have “drug-induced homicide” laws that carry murder and manslaughter, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit drug policy organization based in New York. Lawmakers in Connecticut, Hawaii and Mississippi have proposed murder and manslaughter charges for overdoses this year. Several states passed such laws over the past two years, while others have taken to charging drug deaths under murder and manslaughter statutes that don’t specifically mention overdoses.
By voting for Parker’s Law...
You will support putting a stop to our children being preyed upon by drug dealers. Peer pressure, hounding and the portrayal of fitting in or being cool are ways our youth are being lured into experimenting with drugs, making them easy targets. Drug dealers are less often addicts themselves and are in the business of making money, regardless if the product that they sell is harmful or deadly. They do not care about their customer and will not think twice about that individuals safety or if it results in their death.
Parker Rodenbaugh was a student at M.S.U. entering his junior year in the fall of 2014. Returning back to school was exciting and full of opportunities including an architect internship. But also moving to Starkville was a drug dealer whom Parker had gone to high school with and had at one time considered a friend. This individual had not registered to attend school in the Starkville area and had intended to sell drugs to college kids like Parker for a living. This drug dealer was arrested after Parker’s death with over 450 dosage units hidden in a backpack in the closet of his apartment. The drugs found were bought off the internet for 80 cents per dosage unit with intention to sell for $10 a dose. If not for the arrest made immediately following Parker’s death after ingesting 2 doses of the drug, many other students in the area could have lost their lives.
Information cited from article written by U.S. News | Dave Collins | Feb. 25, 2019
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The Issue
In the state of Mississippi, there is NO LAW holding drug dealers accountable for supplying a drug that results in bodily harm or death to another individual. Under Parker’s Law, these drug dealers will be held accountable and will be prosecuted!
20+ states already have this law! More than 20 states now have “drug-induced homicide” laws that carry murder and manslaughter, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit drug policy organization based in New York. Lawmakers in Connecticut, Hawaii and Mississippi have proposed murder and manslaughter charges for overdoses this year. Several states passed such laws over the past two years, while others have taken to charging drug deaths under murder and manslaughter statutes that don’t specifically mention overdoses.
By voting for Parker’s Law...
You will support putting a stop to our children being preyed upon by drug dealers. Peer pressure, hounding and the portrayal of fitting in or being cool are ways our youth are being lured into experimenting with drugs, making them easy targets. Drug dealers are less often addicts themselves and are in the business of making money, regardless if the product that they sell is harmful or deadly. They do not care about their customer and will not think twice about that individuals safety or if it results in their death.
Parker Rodenbaugh was a student at M.S.U. entering his junior year in the fall of 2014. Returning back to school was exciting and full of opportunities including an architect internship. But also moving to Starkville was a drug dealer whom Parker had gone to high school with and had at one time considered a friend. This individual had not registered to attend school in the Starkville area and had intended to sell drugs to college kids like Parker for a living. This drug dealer was arrested after Parker’s death with over 450 dosage units hidden in a backpack in the closet of his apartment. The drugs found were bought off the internet for 80 cents per dosage unit with intention to sell for $10 a dose. If not for the arrest made immediately following Parker’s death after ingesting 2 doses of the drug, many other students in the area could have lost their lives.
Information cited from article written by U.S. News | Dave Collins | Feb. 25, 2019
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Petition created on May 17, 2020