{"id":87462,"date":"2017-02-01T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87462"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:20:19","slug":"house-defers-death-penalty-bill-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/house-defers-death-penalty-bill-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"House defers death penalty bill sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84926\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13962584_10153559884857271_6867597180241111964_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84926\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13962584_10153559884857271_6867597180241111964_n.png\" alt=\"A House of Representatives (Pictured)  panel has approved measures declaring Davao City and Biliran province as mining-free zones. (Photo: House of Representatives\/ Facebook)\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13962584_10153559884857271_6867597180241111964_n.png 175w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13962584_10153559884857271_6867597180241111964_n-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A House of Representatives (Pictured) panel has approved measures declaring Davao City and Biliran province as mining-free zones. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheHousePH\/photos\/a.439691027270.235592.183015742270\/10153559884857271\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">House of Representatives\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Despite being on the official order of business in the House of Representatives, the bill seeking to restore death penalty was not sponsored on the plenary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s session was suspended without the sponsorship of House Bill No. 4727.<\/p>\n<p>Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, one of the bill\u2019s sponsor, said he reached a compromise with opposition lawmakers led by Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman to defer the sponsorship to Wednesday\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p>A sponsorship speech is necessary to formally introduce the measure to the floor before debates and amendments can take place in preparation for a second reading vote.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers expected to deliver their sponsorship speeches are Umali, Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as, Deputy Speaker Fredenil Castro, and Leyte Rep. Vicente Veloso.<\/p>\n<p>The measure reviving death penalty already passed a major hurdle the House justice committee last Dec. 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed measure, the heinous crimes for which the death penalty will be imposed include illegal drug trafficking, arson, treason, murder, rape, kidnapping, and carnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The mode of capital punishment could either be through hanging, by firing squad or lethal injection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Despite being on the official order of business in the House of Representatives, the bill seeking to restore death penalty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[11118,13663],"class_list":["post-87462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-reynaldo-umali","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}