FILE PHOTO: Death chamber.
Muntinlupa representative Ruffy Biazon is certain that now is the right time to revive the death penalty.
Once the 17th Congress opens, he will immediately file the bill on death penalty.
First in line to file a bill in 17th Congress is Biazon.
Based on Biazon’s draft of the bill, only illegal drug-related cases are subject to death penalty like what was written in the original version of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
Here, drug pushers, users and protectors may face death penalty regardless if they are Filipinos or foreigners.
The death penalty will be done by lethal injection.
“This is the penalty that we believe is appropriate to acts associated with illegal drug business. Aside from being illegal, it also destroys lives. It is also a factor that influences some people commit crimes,” Biazon stated.
Biazon explained based on their studies some convicted inmates change their way of living in the correctional.
But drug lords continue to use and push drugs inside the jail.
Meanwhile, incoming house speaker Pantaleon Alvarez says they will include heinous crime like rape and murder in their version.
They plan to pass the death penalty in the house within a year.
“Heinous crimes are abominable acts. Meaning, acts beyond the ordinary murder,” Alvarez said in a phone interview.
But Makabayan Bloc says they will block the passage of it.
“Ever since, Gabriela is against death penalty,” said. Emmie De Jesus.
(GRACE CASIN/UNTV NEWS)
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