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    Two Philippine lawmakers called for the imposition of the death penalty, adding it is the best deterrent to foreign drug traffickers from operating in the Philippines, a local paper said.

    "They are emboldened to establish their drug factories in the country because if they are arrested and convicted, they only suffer life imprisonment, compared to the maximum penalty that they may suffer in other countries, such as China," Congressman Rufus Rodriguez told the Star.

    "There is a need to amend our laws to ensure that foreign nationals caught violating our laws on drugs will also be convicted with the harshest penalties that their national law imposes," said Congressman Rodruguez, adding, "Many sectors of society now believe that the law is not just and equitable."

    Arrested Chinese drug dealers and manufacturers are just deported to China, complained Rodriguez.He and his brother, Congressman Maximo Rodriguez, filed a bill to amend Republic Act 9165 which prohibits the imposition of death penalty.

    The country's death penalty was repealed by former President Corazon Aquino during a revolutionary government in 1986.

    But Congress re-imposed death penalty in 1993, during the time of former President Fidel Ramos.

    It was repealed again during the term of former President Gloria Arroyo in 2006.

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    I've always said that the Philippines has no business giving the death penalty to anyone. The country is far too dirty and corrupt. To be honest, a murderer can easily make the charge 'go away' for 1-2 thousand US Dollars. The poor, who sometimes earn as little as $2-3 per day, are just screwed. And yes, in PH there have been many innocents executed.

    In the past capital punishment has routinely been used as a way of eliminating competition - both financial and political. Add to it that most of the drug trade in the Philippines is controlled by high-ranking politicians and the obligarchy, ruled by elitist families who control every aspect of Filipino life. For me, a country needs a certain amount of maturity and discipline to ensure that the death penalty will be applied fairly and not abused. It just isn't there. Some other SE Asian countries like Singapore and even Malaysia are an entirely different story.

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    Philippines seeks mercy for 77 on death row abroad

    "We are helping them out. We are making high level representations and making sure they have access to legal and consular assistance and trying to get their sentences commuted," Foreign Department spokesman Raul Hernandez said.

    Last year, four Filipinos were put to death in China for drug trafficking despite the intervention of high-level officials including an appeal from Philippines President Benigno Aquino.

    The executions triggered widespread condemnation in the largely-Catholic country which abolished the death sentence in 2006.

    Of those facing execution, 42 are detained in China on drugs charges, he said.

    Six Filipinos face the death sentence in Malaysia, five also for drugs-related offences, while one Filipina convicted for the same reason is detained in Indonesia.

    There are 27 Filipinos on death row in the Middle East, most for murder, while another Filipino is facing execution for murder in the United States, said Hernandez.

    He did not say when the 77 were due to be executed.

    The welfare of Filipinos abroad is a sensitive issue in a country where where more than nine million work overseas, many in harsh conditions where they can be tricked into acting as drug mules.

    http://news.ph.msn.com/regional/arti...mentid=6010311
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    Lawmakers split on reimposition of death penalty

    Lawmakers from the House of Representatives were divided on the proposal to revive death penalty in the country, as suggested by Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Nicanor Bartolome.

    Akbayan party-list Rep. Walden Bello dismissed Bartolome’s suggestion as “barbaric,” saying that capital punishment does not deter heinous crimes.

    “It [death penalty] doesn’t work. It promotes the illusion that force rather than improvement of social conditions is the key to the security of the community,” he said Sunday.

    Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya also junked Bartolome’s proposal, and instead urged the government to focus on judicial reforms.

    “The real deterrent to crime is good law enforcement work and the assurance of being convicted and jailed,” he said.

    Last Friday, the PNP chief said he is in favor of the re-imposition of death penalty in the country, saying that criminals seem to have become bolder in committing illegal acts.

    Bartolome issued this statement a day after armed men forcibly entered the Robinsons Galleria mall in Quezon City in broad daylight, causing the death of one security guard and six other people.

    Capital punishment was abolished in the Philippines in 2006 during the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo—13 years after death penalty was reintroduced in the country in 1993.

    ‘Maximize fear’


    Senior Deputy Majority Leader Janet Garin, meanwhile, supported Bartolome’s view, citing “the apparent daring attitude of criminals” in the country.

    “The glaring disrespect to law enforcers simply means that fear should be maximized as a deterrent to heinous activities,” she said in a separate statement.

    Garin, however, echoed Abaya’s stand that the re-imposition of capital punishment should be coupled with the “cleansing” of the country’s justice system.

    Maguindanao Rep. Simeon Datumanong, for his part, expressed belief that death penalty “will deter the commission of capital offenses which are happening almost on a daily basis” in the country.

    Two measures—House Bills 4084 and 3993—seeking to revive death penalty are currently pending before the House committee on justice.

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...-death-penalty
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    Duterte backs death penalty

    DAVAO - City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is throwing full support to renewed calls of imposing the death penalty anew following the series of crime incidents in the country.

    Duterte said his position on the matter has not changed, saying that he strongly opposed the move of Congress to abolish death penalty when he was still congressman of the first district of Davao.

    The death penalty was eventually abolished in 2006 after then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed a legislation that eliminated such punishment. This led to 1,200 prisoners in death row having their sentences changed to life imprisonment.

    "In the first place, kadtong gitanggal ang death penalty, sayop ‘to. Sa among panahon sa 11th Congress, gisulayan to, wa kalusot (Removing the death penalty was a mistake. In my time in the 11th Congress, there was an attempt to lift the death penalty but this failed) because I'm one of those who opposed the measures introduced by Senator Joker Arroyo. Nag debate mi ana," Duterte said in his television program "Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa" on Sunday.

    Calls to re-impose the death penalty were renewed following the murder of Cyrish Magalang, a Tourism cum laude graduate from University of Santo Tomas. Magalang was stabbed to death 49 times by two brothers, tricycle drivers both, allegedly high on drugs.

    Duterte said those delinquents who deserve death penalty have a debt to pay to society. He said that even though such punishment will not deter some people from committing a crime, at least they will be punished for their unlawful actions.

    Duterte added that even though death penalty was abolished, some relatives of the victims of heinous crimes that deserve such punishment often resort to vengeance, which is not good.

    "So kanang mga bleeding hearts or humanist dira, pareha ra na. Imo na silang kuryentehan or tadtaron, parehos ra nang pataya (to the bleeding hearts and humanists, it’s the same death. Whether you electrocute them or chop them, they’re still dead)," Duterte said.

    "Ayaw mi tagai anang drama ninyo na it's a cruel and unusual punishment kay tanan pamaagi na patyon nimo ang usa ka tao cruel and unusual jud na. Kining mga human rights, sunod-sunod mo anang mga European na against death penalty (Don’t talk to me about how execution methods are cruel and unusual punishments because all ways of killing a person is cruel and unusual. These human rights advocates are merely copycats of Europeans who are against death penalty)," he added.

    Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte earlier said she is also in favor on the death penalty but it should be imposed for heinous crimes.

    But the Catholic Church in the Philippines is strongly opposing death penalty, insisting that criminals deserve a chance to reform and repent.

    Meanwhile, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III earlier said such punishment could only be applied if a judicial system is perfect and flawless. He added that the law enforcers should focus on effective law enforcement to address criminalities.

    http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/loca...penalty-253963
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    'Weekly' executions under Duterte - Dino\

    MANILA – Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will reimpose the death penalty and implement it weekly if he is elected president, erstwhile PDP-Laban presidential bet Martin Diño said Wednesday.

    Diño, the current chairman of Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, said in case Duterte wins, the latter will reimpose the death penalty six months into his presidency and have weekly executions of convicts of heinous crimes.

    Duterte, after months of blowing hot and cold about his presidential bid, said over the weekend that he is finally gunning for the country's top post.

    Duterte, known for his heavy handed approach on criminals, has attracted Filipino voters clamoring for an iron-fist leadership. However, not everyone is happy with his demeanor and spotty human rights record.

    COC FILING NEXT WEEK

    Diño, who filed his presidential bid under PDP-Laban but later withdrew after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) law department sought to declare him as a nuisance bet, said the PDP-Laban leadership and the camp of Duterte are now in talks to thresh out their plan of naming the mayor as the party's substitute candidate.

    He said Duterte is expected to file his certificate of candidacy for president next week. Political parties only have until December 10 to name substitute bets.

    Diño said Duterte is also prepared to go to the Supreme Court to fight for his chance to become a presidential candidate. This, amid the views of some lawyers and election experts that the mayor may find it hard to take Diño's place because the latter had already withdrawn his candidacy and is also at risk of being declared a nuisance bet.

    COC ERROR

    Diño also downplayed the error in his COC, which indicates that he is running for mayor of Pasay City.

    He believes that the Comelec already ignored this clerical error when the poll body asked him to explain why he should not be declared a nuisance.

    Diño said apart from re-imposing the death penalty, Duterte also plans to give more power to the regions through a change in the form of government from presidential to federal.

    According to Diño, Duterte believes that by achieving peace and order in the country, more investments will come in that will create more jobs for Filipinos.

    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11...r-duterte-dino
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Presidential Candidate Duterte favors public executions of criminals

    TUGUEGARAO CITY — Rodrigo Duterte may have learned a lesson from late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Or maybe he picked up the lesson from former President Joseph Estrada.

    Speaking at a political rally on Wednesday, the opposition presidential candidate and Davao City mayor reinforced his iron-hand stance against crime—he not only wants the death penalty back, he also wants the execution to be in public.

    “I will work for the restoration of the death penalty,” Duterte told a cheering crowd here. “I will really bring it back (and make) it public so that the people will see for themselves (how criminals are punished).”

    The 1987 Constitution abolished the death penalty although it does not close its door to its restoration.

    Section 19 of the Charter’s Bill of Rights states: “Excessive fines shall not be imposed, nor cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment inflicted. Neither shall the death penalty be imposed, unless, for compelling reasons involving heinous crimes, the Congress hereafter provides for it. Any death penalty already imposed shall be reduced to reclusion perpetua.”

    Death by musketry

    Duterte spoke to a crowd of about 3,000, mostly college students, at University of Cagayan Valley gymnasium here.

    Marcos ordered the execution by firing squad in public of Chinese drug trafficker Lim Seng in January 1973, four months after declaring martial law. In May 1972, before martial law was declared, the three convicted rapists of movie star Maggie dela Riva were executed by lethal injection in the presence of the media.

    Duterte promise

    Another convicted rapist, Leo Echegaray, was executed by lethal drugs, also in the presence of the media, in February 1999 during the Estrada presidency.

    Repeating a promise he made earlier, Duterte asked voters to give him “three to six months” to stamp out criminality in the country.

    He said he would take “full responsibility, legal or otherwise,” for any human rights violation or administrative charges that may be slapped against lawmen accused of killing criminals.

    From the airport, Duterte met with Tuguegarao Archbishop Sergio Utleg before his convoy drove around the city, where people lining up the street chanted, “Duterte! Duterte!”

    Pressed by Utleg for details on his political platform, Duterte told the archbishop: “I will be very drastic. I will order the police and the military (to use all measures) as granted to me (by law) should I win the race.

    “I assure you, if (you are concerned about stories that I would be killing people), that is not something we will do,” he said.

    During the motorcade around the city, Duterte stood at the back of a pickup truck. He waved at cheering women and raised a clenched fist to acknowledge his male supporters.

    He invited the people of Tuguegarao to visit Davao City and see for themselves what he had achieved as mayor for 22 years.

    “I will even take care of your hotel expenses. But please, the first batch should all be beautiful women,” he said.

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    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Philippine presidential favorite Duterte to ‘butcher’ criminals

    Philippine presidential favorite Rodrigo Duterte vowed to forget human rights if he wins Monday’s election and “butcher” criminals, in a typically savage tirade to end an explosive campaign.

    Duterte, who has hypnotized millions of voters with his promises to eradicate crime and corruption, repeatedly warned tens of thousands of fans in Manila on Saturday night that there would be mass killings under his presidency.

    “Forget the laws on human rights,” said Duterte, as he boasted of killing criminals during his more than two decades as mayor of the southern city of Davao.

    “If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because as the mayor, I’d kill you.”

    In his 90-minute speech, the last of his campaign, Duterte said he would be prepared to kill a criminal even in front of human rights campaigners or other critics.

    “I will butcher him in front of them if they want,” he said.

    Duterte, 71, has made his threats to kill criminals the centerpiece of his campaign strategy, outraging critics but winning the hearts of many in an electorate who are fed up with lawlessness and corruption.

    Duterte, who has also used foul language to help cast himself as an anti-establishment figure, has a lead of 11 percentage points going into Monday’s election, according to the latest survey.

    Senator Grace Poe, the adopted daughter of a late movie star, and establishment bedrock Mar Roxas, are tied in second place. Vice President Jejomar Binay, the early favourite, has fallen to fourth place under the weight of a barrage of corruption allegations.

    ‘Return of terror’

    Aside from his cuss-filled promises to kill, Duterte has rocked the political establishment with threats to instill one-man rule if lawmakers disobey him and create a revolutionary government that could rewrite the constitution.

    He has also caused disgust in international diplomatic circles with a joke that he wanted to rape a “beautiful” Australian missionary who was killed in a 1989 Philippine prison riot, and boasted repeatedly about his Viagra-fueled affairs.

    President Benigno Aquino, whose mother led the democracy movement that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos a generation ago, has repeatedly warned the nation is at risk of succumbing to another dictatorship.

    At Roxas’s final campaign rally, which took place on Saturday at the same time as Duterte’s on the other side of Manila, Aquino launched his fiercest verbal attack yet on the insurgent candidate, likening his rise to that of German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

    “I need your help to stop the return of terror in our land. I cannot do it alone,” Aquino said, urging Filipinos to learn from history.

    “We should remember how Hitler came to power. If you allow them to oppress your fellow man and you do not speak up, you will be the next one to be oppressed.”

    Duterte responded on Saturday to Aquino’s previous criticism of him by describing the president as a “son of a whore”.

    ‘Eat bullets’

    Duterte also elaborated on his rule of Davao, where rights groups have accused him of being behind vigilante death squads that killed more than 1,000 people.

    They mayor says he has turned the city of roughly two million people into one of the safest and wealthiest in the country, and is promising to do the same for the rest of the country.

    “There will be no corruption in government. If you don’t believe just go to Davao and see. When I say I will make (a criminal) eat a bullet, you must believe me,” he said.

    Among the attendees was 84-year-old housewife Zenaida Gobangco, who said she would vote for Duterte.

    “He is sincere. When he says he will kill criminals, it is just right that we have a leader people fear,” she said.

    While Duterte is undeniably the favorite, he lacks the sophisticated political machinery of some of his rivals and is not guaranteed victory, according to Manila-based political analyst Earl Parreno.

    Roxas, a US-educated investment banker who served as interior and transport secretaries in Aquino’s administration, is in the strongest position to challenge him, Parreno, from the Institute of Political and Electoral Reforms, told AFP.

    Roxas can expect a boost of about five percentage points from the machinery of the Liberal Party, which can use its money and influence to get people into voting booths, he said.

    “We also still have the undecided. It’s going to be a very, very close fight,” Parreno said.

    http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/783964/...cher-criminals
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Duterte claims Philippine presidency, vows crime crackdown

    Davao (Philippines) (AFP) - Incendiary Philippine politician Rodrigo Duterte vowed Tuesday a relentless crackdown on crime after securing a landslide presidential victory built on foul-mouthed populist tirades that exposed deep voter anger at the establishment.

    The 71-year-old firebrand's main rivals conceded defeat after an unofficial tally showed Duterte had an insurmountable lead in Monday's election of 6.1 million votes, a result that added to howls across the globe for strong, populist leaders.

    Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, captivated Filipinos with vows of brutal but quick solutions to crime and poverty, while offering himself as a decisive strongman capable of resolving a host of other deeply entrenched problems in society.

    However Duterte vowed to push through on the central plank of his campaign platform -- ending crime across the nation within six months and eliminating corruption.

    On the campaign trail he had enraged critics but hypnotised fans with profanity-laced promises to kill tens of thousands of criminals, forget human rights laws and pardon himself for mass murder.

    Duterte, who on the campaign trail boasted of being behind the death squads, also had a warning for corrupt police.

    "If you are a policeman and stick to your racket, choose: either you kill me or I kill you," he said.

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/31...ime-crackdown/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Duterte: I'll bring back death penalty in Philippines

    Incoming president also wants 'shoot to kill' order

    By Tiffany Ap
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    Rodrigo Duterte, Philippines' presumptive president, has said he wants to bring back the death penalty and empower security forces to "shoot to kill" anyone who resists arrest.

    The controversial figure whose tough-on-crime stance brought him a landslide win last week in national elections, reiterated his views on capital punishment Sunday at a press conference saying "if there is no fear in the law or attached to the law...it's useless."

    "What I would do is urge Congress to restore the death penalty by hanging, especially if you use drugs," he said, according to CNN Philippines.

    The country abolished capital punishment in 2006.

    "If you resist arrest...you offer a violent resistance, my order to the police or the military is to shoot to kill," he added.

    The 71-year-old has a long track record of incendiary -- sometimes outlandish -- claims.

    Last week, he promised to step down if he failed to fulfill his promise to stamp out corruption in six months -- a feat experts say is impossible. While on the campaign trail, he said he would execute 100,000 criminals and dump them into Manila Bay, and has suggested killing people as mayor of Davao.

    Although official election results have yet to be announced, with 38.6 percent of the vote, Duterte's winning margin is indisputable.

    Who will be Duterte's deputy, however, is not so clear.

    Vice-presidential candidate Leni Robredo has the lead with more than 90 percent of votes tallied, but on Sunday, Bongbong Marcos, son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos who was narrowly behind Robredo, claimed he'd won and alleged irregularities in the count.

    http://www.ktxs.com/news/national/du...nalty/39563242
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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