“e excitement of some hereon at the prospect of slaughtering drug users is disturbing.”
I favor a jury trial and a vigorous defense.
But don’t be too disturbed. It’s an (over)reaction to the recent decades of “drugs are harmless” and “addiction is just an illness.”
We’re sick of it. They aren’t harmless. And cancer is an illness; addiction is NOT.
Furthermore, druggies have a way of spreading their habit to other impressionable people. Examine any life ruined by drugs and you'll find it all started with some druggie "friend" who sucked the fellow in. Druggies are not content with ruining merely their own lives. They have to spread their problem to others.