Pubdate: Sun, 09 Dec 2001
Source: Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
Copyright: 2001 Ledger-Enquirer
Contact:  http://www.l-e-o.com/
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Note: This is a column reprinting stories run in this newspaper 50 years 
ago.  Not a current story.

Fifty Years Ago Today - December 9, 1951

BILL TO ASK DEATH FOR DOPE PEDDLERS

A Muscogee member of the Georgia House of Representatives will introduce a 
bill next month providing for a death penalty for unlawful sale of 
habit-forming drugs to minors.

Rep. Harry Dicus' bill would apply to all types of narcotics, barbiturates 
and other habit-forming drugs.

"I don't think a death penalty would be too harsh," Mr. Dicus declared, 
asserting that wrecking young lives "is worse than murder, and I think the 
penalty ought to be commensurate with the crime."
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