Philippines to bring back death penalty

President Manila spokesman Harry Rock conducted the plan that the Philippine government will use the death penalty as part of the punitive relying despite the fact that Francis Pope claimed that the death penalty is "unacceptable" under all circumstances I will continue to do.

"The re-crime of death penalty for serious narcotics-related offenses is still the government's top priority," Mr. Rock said at a press conference held in Bakinon in March.

But Rock added that the decision to reexecute the death penalty will still be decided by the Senate and the House of Representatives whether to review the law prescribing such penalties in 1993.

In the 1970s, the whole state of the archipelago became a state of martial law, and in the 1970s the crime was a serious problem, the country carried out judicial execution.

The 1987 Constitution abolished the death penalty, but the capital punishment was reintroduced in 1993. The person who was first punished in 1998 was Leo Echegaray who was convicted of raping a teen-year-old daughter.

In 2006, President Gloria Macapagal - President Arroyo established the law. Republic Act No. 9346 abolished the death penalty.

Arroyo was concerned that the death penalty as part of the domestic judicial process would weaken the position of the country against the generous treatment of overseas Filipino workers who want to die abroad.

President Rodrigo Duterte said he hoped to strengthen the death penalty as a deterrent to drug crime

In March 2017, the House passed the Act No. 4727. This is aimed at executing the death penalty. The fate of similar measures in the Senate is still unknown

Last Thursday, Pope Francis declared in any circumstances the death penalty "unacceptable." The church approved the revision of the death penalty. It attacked human dignity and the dignity of human life.

Reasons for changing teachings include increasing the effectiveness of detention systems, increasing understanding of the immutable dignity of people, and the possibility of turning into individuals.

"Today, people are increasingly aware that human dignity will not be lost even if they commit a very serious crime, and there is a new understanding of the importance of criminal sanction imposed by the state Detention measures have been taken to ensure that citizens receive appropriate protection for them, but at the same time there is no clear deprivation of the possibility of criminal redemption.

A spokesman for the Philippine Independent Human Rights Committee Jacqueline de Gia wants the senator to listen to the statements of Pope Francis on the death penalty

The Philippine government is now about to return the death penalty to the approval stage by the Senate - or they can object. They have the right to prevent the reintroduction of the death penalty. But we must act now, vote against opportunities to put pressure on them as much as possible and return them to them.

We call on the 17th Philippine Parliament to keep the right of life and not resume the use of the death penalty proposed in the House bill. We urge all members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to protect the rights of life. Strengthened compliance with Philippine obligations not to impose a death penalty under the Philippine Constitution of 1987 and Article 19 of the Constitution and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Second Optional Protocol. We urge the Philippine government that drug crime will be proportionally distributed to protect vulnerable populations and to invest in ways to mitigate harm to protect the health and happiness of the Philippine people We urge you to make sure. By doing so, the Philippines becomes an overly punitive law and can maintain the power to protect overseas Filipino workers, including those who are being executed abroad.

In 1987, the Philippines became the first Asian country to abolish the death penalty from all crimes. Since then many Filipino and foreign observers are particularly disappointed that the Philippine international leadership to support the protection of human rights is not supported by the death penalty. On the contrary, the Philippines is now opposed to the obvious worldwide abolition of the death penalty and has abandoned the possibility of playing a region - initiated role in the death penalty - especially in the long - term use of the death penalty in Southeast Asia.