Connect with us

News

Incoming House Speaker urges Congress to restore death penalty

Published

on

A lethal injection room. (Wikipedia Photo)

A lethal injection room. (Wikipedia Photo)

MANILA—In response to President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s call for the restoration of the death penalty, Davao del Norte Rep. and incoming House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez has filed a bill urging Congress for the expeditious passage of a law reimposing capital punishment on certain heinous crimes.

Alvarez’ death penalty bill was the first measure filed in the House of Representatives of the 17th Congress and was jointly filed with Capiz Rep. Fredenil Castro.

In filing House Bill No. 1, Alvarez and Castro noted that the “criminal justice system has had to make do with penal laws that are perceived to be less than dissuasive.”

“Our criminal justice system has been emasculated in no small measure by the non-deterrent nature of impossible penalties on the most depraved violations of human life, honor and dignity,” they said.

Alvarez and Castro said that “there is evidently a need to reinvigorate the war against criminality by revising a deterrent coupled by its consistent, persistent and determined implementation.

“This need is as compelling and critical as any. The basic tenets of equity and justice demand that our penal system be one not only of reformation but corresponding retribution,” they stressed.

Once enacted into law, the crimes of human trafficking, illegal recruitment, plunder, treason, parricide, infanticide, rape, qualified piracy and bribery, kidnapping and illegal detention, robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons, car theft, destructive arson, terrorism and drug-related cases, among others, would be punishable by death.

But while President Duterte has voiced his preference for death by hanging, the measure filed by Alvarez and Castro calls for lethal injection, the mode of execution when capital punishment was restored under former President Fidel V. Ramos until it was abolished in 2006.

 

Continue Reading
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Maria in Vancouver

Maria in Vancouver1 week ago

Fantabulous Christmas Party Ideas

It’s that special and merry time of the year when you get to have a wonderful excuse to celebrate amongst...

Lifestyle2 weeks ago

How To Do Christmas & Hanukkah This Year

Christmas 2024 is literally just around the corner! Here in Vancouver, we just finished celebrating Taylor Swift’s last leg of...

Lifestyle1 month ago

Nobody Wants This…IRL (In Real Life)

Just like everyone else who’s binged on Netflix series, “Nobody Wants This” — a romcom about a newly single rabbi...

Lifestyle2 months ago

Family Estrangement: Why It’s Okay

Family estrangement is the absence of a previously long-standing relationship between family members via emotional or physical distancing to the...

Lifestyle3 months ago

Becoming Your Best Version

By Matter Laurel-Zalko As a woman, I’m constantly evolving. I’m constantly changing towards my better version each year. Actually, I’m...

Lifestyle3 months ago

The True Power of Manifestation

I truly believe in the power of our imagination and that what we believe in our lives is an actual...

Maria in Vancouver4 months ago

DECORATE YOUR HOME 101

By Matte Laurel-Zalko Our home interiors are an insight into our brains and our hearts. It is our own collaboration...

Maria in Vancouver5 months ago

Guide to Planning a Wedding in 2 Months

By Matte Laurel-Zalko Are you recently engaged and find yourself in a bit of a pickle because you and your...

Maria in Vancouver5 months ago

Staying Cool and Stylish this Summer

By Matte Laurel-Zalko I couldn’t agree more when the great late Ella Fitzgerald sang “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”...

Maria in Vancouver6 months ago

Ageing Gratefully and Joyfully

My 56th trip around the sun is just around the corner! Whew. Wow. Admittedly, I used to be afraid of...