Credit to Author: Oliver Noble| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:39:41 +0000
Trump has openly called for capital punishment to be used against people he’s accused of “treason,” “spying,” and other crimes for years.
Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:08:11 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — White-collar crimes that “leads to massive deception” should also be punishable by death, neophyte Senator Francis Tolentino said on Wednesday. During the Senate session hours after the Blue Ribbon Committee conducted a hearing into the alleged corruption and anomalies within the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), Tolentino called for the expansion of […]
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:12:52 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Manny Pacquiao, who invoked the Holy Bible in previous discussions on the death penalty, echoed Senate President Vicente Sotto III’s recent appeal not to drag Jesus Christ in debates on the reimposition of capital punishment in the country.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 01:42:24 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday appealed to colleagues to stop invoking religion and the name of Jesus in the discussions on the proposed reimposition of the death penalty.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:04:02 +0000
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is calling for new death penalty legislation as an answer to hate crimes and mass killings. But whether that would deter shooters is questionable — especially since most don’t live to face trial.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 22:05:10 +0000
Scalawags among the police might exploit the threat of death penalty by committing horrific abuses against suspected criminals, a prolife congressman said on Friday, following President Duterte’s renewed push for the revival of capital punishment.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:54:41 +0000
It was a comedy of errors seemingly inappropriate for a somber occasion on June 25, 1999 at the National Penitentiary—convicted child rapist Eduardo Agbayani was about to be executed by lethal injection.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:54:24 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte’s supposed preference to hang convicts as form of capital punishment shows just how “barbaric” and “inhumane”
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:28:14 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte rejected Thursday the move to lower the threshold amount to commit plunder from P50 million to P10 million. In his fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona), Duterte said he wanted the reimposition of the death penalty for illegal drugs and plunder. READ: Duterte reiterated push for death penalty […]
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:08:40 +0000
With the current clamor from some quarters for the reinstatement of the death penalty, the Commission on Human Rights reminded the government that “cruel, inhuman, and degrading” punishments are considered as serious human rights offenses.
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