Ituloy angsulong ng Death Penalty
Eh bakit wala na? Kaya nagkalat ang mga tarantado at gago dito sa Pilipinas, sapagkat inabolish nanaman ang Death Penalty. Kung ba naman yan mga corrupt na opisyal ng gobyerno sana ang una nilalagay sa death penalty eh di sana maayos at maunlad na ang Pilipinas. Akala ko ba tayo ang una sa Death Penalty, ayon dito sa nabasa ko…
The Philippines was the first Asian country that abolished the death penalty in 1987. But six years after it has reimposed the death penalty, the Philippines has overtaken its Asian neighbors and has the most number of death convicts.
The repeal of death penalty came about with the promulgation of a new Constitution after the ouster of the Marcos dictatorship. The lesson of Martial Law, underscored by the more than 10,000 victims who were either tortured, disappeared or summarily executed, was that the state alone should not be given the awful power of life and death over its citizens.
Within less than a year, however, the military establishment was lobbying for its reimposition as a means to combat the “intensifying” offensives of the CPP/NPA guerrillas. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, then Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and later elected President of the Philippines in 1992, was among those who were strongly calling for the reintroduction of the death penalty against rebellion, murder and drug trafficking.
In mid 1987, a bill to reinstate the death penalty was submitted to Congress. Military pressure was very much evident in the preamble which cited the pestering insurgency as well as the recommendations of the police and the military as compelling reasons for the reimposition of the death penalty. The bill cited recent right wing coup attempts as an example of the alarming deterioration of peace and order and argued for the death penalty both as an effective deterrent against heinous crimes and as a matter of simple retributive justice .
The bill which was promoted as a counter-insurgency bill was passed by the House of Representatives in 1988. Three similar bills, introduced in 1989 failed to get approval of the Senate and the bill was shelved into the archives.
Ituloy angsulong ng Death Penalty
