{"id":224135,"date":"2019-07-23T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224135"},"modified":"2019-07-23T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:08:30","slug":"senate-could-narrowly-pass-death-penalty-bill-sotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/23\/senate-could-narrowly-pass-death-penalty-bill-sotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate could narrowly pass death penalty bill: Sotto"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
In a radio interview, Sotto said at least 13 senators may support the proposed restoration of the death penalty for high-level drug trafficking and plunder. (File Photo<\/a>: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday said the Senate could narrowly pass the death penalty bill in a “squeaker” vote.<\/p>\n

In a radio interview, Sotto said at least 13 senators may support the proposed restoration of the death penalty for high-level drug trafficking and plunder.<\/p>\n

“Palagay ko<\/em>\u00a0squeaker\u00a0pero kaya. Kung baga sa mga<\/em>\u00a013-14,\u00a0kaya natin. Kung<\/em>\u00a0high-level drug trafficking\u00a0lang<\/em>\u00a0(I think it could be a squeaker but it’s still possible. Probably, with around 13 to 14 (senators), it can be done. If it only covers high-level drug trafficking),” Sotto said.<\/p>\n

“Syempre, kung ipapasok ang<\/em>\u00a0plunder\u00a0at hindi naman magandang umayaw kami doon, kasama na rin sa<\/em>\u00a0squeaker\u00a0yan, mga<\/em>\u00a013-14,\u00a0baka kayanin sa Senado<\/em>\u00a0(If we were to include plunder–and it would not be good for us to reject such proposal–it could also be a squeaker. With around 13-14 (votes), it could be passed in the Senate),” Sotto added.<\/p>\n

Stressing how the government still has “a long way to go” in the fight against illegal drugs, President Rodrigo R. Duterte has renewed his request for Congress to reinstate the death penalty for heinous crimes related to drugs and plunder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI respectfully request Congress to reinstate the death penalty for heinous crimes related to drugs, as well as plunder,\u201d Duterte said in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am aware that we still have a long way to go in our fight against this social menace. Let the reason why I advocate the imposition of the death penalty for crimes related to illegal drugs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte has pushed for the reinstatement of the death penalty since the start of his 2016 presidential campaign and also mentioned it in his second SONA in 2017.<\/p>\n

Two of his allies in Congress, Senators Ronald \u201cBato\u201d dela Rosa and Christopher \u201cBong\u201d Go have both vowed to push for the revival of capital punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday said the Senate could narrowly pass the death penalty bill in a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":202808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224137,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224135\/revisions\/224137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}