Congress last year, in attaching a death penalty to drug-related murders, set 18 as the lower age limit.

These might be seen as isolated events but for the growing concern about drugs and drug-related murders.

I'm not saying it's a drug-related murder, but drugs might play a part in it, that's all.

For years, the city has been trying to change that, but the effort took on new urgency last summer after a drug-related murder occurred nearby.

Around that time he was also tried but acquitted in some drug-related murders.

There is a daily score card of drug-related murders.

The number of drug-related murders fell a tiny bit in 1993 and 1994.

In 1989, 438 people were killed here, he said, and many, if not most of them, were drug-related murders.

"What we were seeing was a substantial decrease in the number of drug-related murders."

The number of drug-related murders in Nayarit has increased dramatically over the past year.