Currently detained Senator and administration critic, Leila De Lima, is looking for legal remedies in order to continue her participation in Senate activities. She issued a...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon had predicted that the death penalty will fall short of votes in the Senate. As there will be at least 13...
MANILA—High-level drug trafficking has a better chance of passing the Senate than the other proposed measures reviving the imposition of death penalty. Senate Majority Leader Vicente...
MANILA—The Diocese of Borongan, Samar has appealed to Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao not to vote in favor of the death penalty. In a letter, Bishop Crispin...
MANILA—Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Tuesday said the purge of dissident House leaders who voted against the administration’s priority bill restoring the death penalty will start next...
MANILA –Senators belonging to the Liberal Party (LP) on Tuesday said they are standing pat on their opposition against death penalty despite pressure from the House...
MANILA –The House of Representatives on Wednesday night approved on second reading the contentious measure restoring the death penalty. During Wednesday’s plenary session presided over by...
MANILA –The House of Representatives has further watered down the bill restoring the death penalty by limiting the number of crimes punishable by death to just...
During his confirmation hearing before lawmakers in the Commission on Appointments yesterday, Foreign Affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay said that the Philippines is preparing for any international...
MANILA –The House of Representatives has introduced amendments to the contentious measure restoring the death penalty after terminating the period of sponsorship and debate. At Wednesday...