...For all practical purposes, THEY INVENTED THE OPIOID CRISIS, with OXYCONTIN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma

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OxyContin, introduced in 1995, was Purdue Pharma’s breakthrough palliative for chronic pain. Under a marketing strategy that Arthur Sackler had pioneered decades earlier, the company aggressively pressed doctors to prescribe the drug, wooing them with free trips to pain-management seminars and paid speaking engagements. Sales soared. The drug was marketed as “smooth and sustained pain control all day and all night” when taken on a 12-hour schedule and as having lower abuse potential than immediate-release oxycodone because of its time-release properties even though there was no scientific evidence backing that conclusion. However, at the start of 2000, widespread reports of OxyContin abuse surfaced. The results obtained from a proactive abuse surveillance program called Researched Abused, Diversion, and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS) sponsored by Purdue Pharma L.P. pronounced Oxycontin and hydrocodone the most commonly abused pain medications. In 2012, New England Journal of Medicine published a study that found that "76 percent of those seeking help for heroin addiction began by abusing pharmaceutical narcotics, primarily OxyContin", and draws a direct line between Purdue's marketing of OxyContin and the subsequent heroin epidemic in the U.S.

A 2016 Los Angeles Times investigation reported that in many people OxyContin's 12-hour schedule does not adequately control pain, resulting in withdrawal symptoms including intense craving for the drug. The journalists suggested that this problem gives "new insight into why so many people have become addicted." Using Purdue documents and other records, they claim that Purdue was aware of this problem even before the drug went to market but "held fast to the claim of 12-hour relief, in part to protect its revenue [because] OxyContin’s market dominance and its high price — up to hundreds of dollars per bottle — hinge on its 12-hour duration."

OxyContin became a blockbuster drug. Purdue had increased its earnings from a few billion in 2007 to US$31 billion by 2016. That had increased to US$35 billion by 2017. According to a 2017 article in The New Yorker, Purdue Pharma is "owned by one of America’s richest families, with a collective net worth of thirteen billion dollars".

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5413857/Sackler-family-billions-opioid-crisis.html

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/14/rich-heroin-dealers.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/13/meet-the-sacklers-the-family-feuding-over-blame-for-the-opioid-crisis

Exactly what I was going to post. Billionaire pushers get a pass.

Members of the Sackler family have become very wealthy by pushing Oxycontin.

I would assume as the nation's biggest drug dealers they would be the first to meet with the death penalty.

Does Trump believe they should have a trial, or does he want the police to just execute them in the street, like Trump's good buddy Rodrigo Duterte?

I'd soft pedal anything to do with execution just sayin.

How about we execute those found guilty of treason against our country by conspiring with foreign power to tamper with our election?

and who face being killed, tortured, ripped off, shot, maimed, assaulted, etc. are somehow deterred by the threat of the death penalty.

legal immigration and an aging population, I foresee a huge doctor shortage.