Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) introduced legislation on Thursday that makes the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death punishable by federal felony murder charges.
This comes as the crisis on the southern border continues to plague the country under the Biden administration.
Known as the Felony Murder for Deadly Fentanyl Distribution Act (pdf), the bill amends the U.S. code, to punish the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death as felony murder. Such an offense is equivalent to premeditated murder.
“Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree by distributing fentanyl shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life,” reads the bill….