Critics of drug-induced homicide laws say harsher sentences aren’t meaningful deterrents, and may actually prevent friends and family from calling 911 for help during an overdose out of fear they may be arrested. (From alaskabeacon)
Broadly known as drug-induced homicide laws, other states have adopted similar measures. But critics of the policies say harsher sentences aren’t meaningful deterrents for manufacturers and dealers, and may actually prevent friends and family from calling 911 for help during an overdose out of fear they may be arrested.
“That’s an increase that demands the attention of the leaders in Alaska,” Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore told the Senate Judiciary Committee during a Mar. 22 hearing. “It allows us to pursue those individuals that peddle these poisons to our citizens more aggressively,” Skidmore said as he presented the bill.
Snodgrass explained she’d hoped the law would be used to go after drug trafficking organizations, and not friends and families of the deceased who may themselves be struggling with addiction or substance misuse.Stacy Eisert’s son, Jason, 41, a high school English teacher, also died from fentanyl poisoning in 2021.
“Our ability to prosecute those cases is very, very limited,” Skidmore said during the hearing. “I’m not asking you to change the challenges for us in presenting them. What the bill does ask you to do is to authorize a greater penalty to be associated for the people who engage in that conduct.”
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