This legal writing titled “The Judge Consideration Principle in Pronouncing
Death Sentence Towards Narcotics Criminal Actors” aimed to obtain data on dead
sentence due to narcotics criminal acts and to know what principles used by the
judges to pronounce dead sentence towards narcotics criminal actors and whether
dead sentence pronounced by the judges to narcotics criminal actors had been
suitable. This was a normative law research by observing literature material that
was a secondary data. Data source used in this research was secondary data
sourced from primary and secondary law materials. Data collection method was
by literature study and interview. Data analysis method was qualitative conducted
by comprehending, composing or examining data that was collected
systematically. Even though narcotics was useful and necessary to treatment and
health service, however, if misused or it was not used as treatment standard, or
even narcotics was distributed in dark market would cause disadvantageous result
both individually as well as collectively, especially for the young people.
Therefore, violation on narcotics regulations could be threatened by highest and
heaviest criminal acts and was possibly condemned maximally i.e. death sentence
besides prison criminal and penalty criminal. The principles used by the judges to
pronounce the dead sentence towards narcotics criminal actors was due to
legislation threatened death sentence in some articles and dead sentence was
considered as one way to cut dark narcotics distribution chain. Dead sentence to
the narcotics criminal actors only met community protection aspect and it has not
met individual protection aspect
