WATCH | Ibalik ang bitay! Richard Gomez wants death penalty vs drug pushers
“Ang problema ng drugs, hindi ito nadadaan sa pakiusapan,” Leyte Rep. Richard Gomez said.
“Ang problema ng drugs, hindi ito nadadaan sa pakiusapan,” Leyte Rep. Richard Gomez said.
Former House Deputy Speaker and BUHAY party-list chairman Lito Atienza on Wednesday opposed calls for the reimposition of the death penalty in the country.
Pope Francis repeated his support for the abolition of the death penalty on the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Bishop Joel Baylon said the return of the death penalty will only victimize the poor who have no access to quality legal services in an “imperfect judicial system.”
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is still not keen on reimposing the death penalty in the Philippines.
A number of lawmakers have separately filed measures seeking to re-impose the death penalty in the country.
Leyte Rep. Richard Gomez will file a measure seeking to impose death penalty on drug traffickers, especially foreigners.
For senatorial candidate Greco Belgica, corrupt officials deserve to die. Belgica has proposed the return of death penalty, this time for those convicted of corruption
Former Supreme Court (SC) spokesperson Theodore Te on Friday (Nov. 5) welcomed the decision of Senators Panfilo Lacson and Vicente Sotto III to no longer support the return of the death penalty.
Better to spare the life of a criminal than to wrongly execute an innocent person.