{"id":221657,"date":"2019-07-05T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=221657"},"modified":"2019-07-05T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T03:25:07","slug":"tough-fight-seen-on-death-penalty-bill-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/05\/tough-fight-seen-on-death-penalty-bill-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tough fight’ seen on death penalty bill in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drilon vowed to block the proposal, stressing that his bloc “strongly and unequivocally” opposes the reimposition of the death penalty. (PNA file photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday said the measure restoring the death penalty awaits a tough fight in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Drilon made the remark after a number of death penalty bills have been filed for the 18th Congress.<\/p>\n

Senators Manny Pacquiao, Ronald dela Rosa, Panfilo Lacson, and Christopher Go have filed their separate bills reviving capital punishment in the country.<\/p>\n

Drilon vowed to block the proposal, stressing that his bloc “strongly and unequivocally” opposes the reimposition of the death penalty.<\/p>\n

“We are prepared to fight it all the way. It will be a tough fight considering that it is administration-backed legislation and a number of senators have openly endorsed its passage. Let alone our diminished number in the Senate,” Drilon said.<\/p>\n

“Notwithstanding these difficulties, we will do our best to prevent it. We will never allow the 18th Congress to give license to authorities to kill the poor,” he added.<\/p>\n

Drilon argued that reviving death penalty is similar to giving a “death sentence” to the poor given the “inadequacies” of the justice system.<\/p>\n

“It has been proven time and again that capital punishment is not an effective deterrent to crimes. Only the poor will be made the victim of this measure,” he added.<\/p>\n

Drilon also noted that majority of Filipinos have expressed strong opposition to the proposal, citing a Social Weather Stations survey last year showing that 7 out of 10 Filipinos are not in favor of imposing the death penalty on a number of serious crimes.<\/p>\n

Dela Rosa’s bill seeks the reimposition of the death penalty, possibly through firing squad, only for high-profile drug offenders.<\/p>\n

Go’s measure, meanwhile, proposes that the death penalty would be imposed through lethal injection.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao prescribed the penalty of life imprisonment to death and a fine ranging from PHP1 million to PHP10 million for the importation and selling of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

Lacson, on the other hand, covers a wider range of offenses, which include, plunder, rape, murder, treason, terrorism, and human trafficking, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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