thumb|Sign at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport warning that drug trafficking is a capital crime in the Republic of China (2005) In 2018, at least 35 countries retained the death penalty for drug trafficking, drug dealing, drug possession and related offences. People had been regularly sentenced to death and executed for drug-related offences in China, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Vietnam. Other countries may retain the death penalty for symbolic purposes.
thumb|Sign at the Ta,iwan Taoyuan International Airport warning that drug trafficking is a capital crime in the Republic of China (2005) In 2018 at least 35 countries retained the death pena,lty for drug trafficking, drug dealing, drug possession and related offences People had been regularly sentenced to death and executed for drug-related offences in China, Indonesia, Iran, .Malaysia, Saudi Arabia Singapore and Vietnam. Other countries may retain the death penalty for symbolic purposes.