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    Death penalty restoration expected within 1 year

    The restoration of the death penalty and the lowering of the age of criminal liability from 14 to nine years old may take effect in a year’s time in order to sustain the success-bound anti-criminality program of the Duterte administration.

    Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez said that the House supermajority should be expected to act on the two legislative proposals, and added that it will take Congress only a year’s time to pass them.

    Alvarez said Senate’s cooperation is vital and urgent in order for Congress to pass the bills at the soonest possible time.

    There is no constitutional issue that can stop the restoration of the death penalty for heinous crimes, the Davao del Norte lawmaker stressed.

    He said that since the 1987 Constitution provides for the imposition of the death sentence for heinous crimes, all that Congress has to do is to define and classify what crimes the capital punishment may be applied to.

    Alvarez said defects in the current Juvenile Justice Law will be addressed in order to further strengthen the fight against criminality in the country.

    According to him, foremost in the provisions of the law is the determination of the age of criminal liability and discernment that is currently set at 15 years old.

    Under the PDP-Laban proposal, criminal liability will be set at nine years old.

    Alvarez explained that the proposed age is two years higher than those provided under criminal laws of Singapore and many states in the United States.

    http://www.mb.com.ph/death-penalty-r...within-1-year/

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    400 dead in a month in Philippines' 'shoot-to-kill' war on drugs

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged abuses have occurred in his war on illegal drugs, which has left more than 400 people dead in a month and alarmed rights activists, but refused to back down from a shoot-to-kill order for drug suspects.

    Duterte said in a speech late Thursday that most drug dealers and addicts slain in gun battles with police had put up a fight, but added that he was sure some were "salvaged," a local slang for extrajudicial killings usually by law enforcers.

    In the case of illegal killings, Duterte said the government will investigate.

    "They really fight back, I know that," Duterte said in a speech in southern Davao city, where he built a name as a mayor for his extra tough approach to crime before becoming president. "I'm sure there are some who were salvaged, I am also sure of that

    Early Friday, he told reporters that he gave "shoot-to-kill" orders against drug dealers, including politicians involved in the illicit trade.

    "I'll really have you killed. Look at what you're doing to the Philippines and I'll forgive you?" Duterte told reporters, apparently enraged after visiting a town police chief who was shot in the chest by a suspected drug dealer and rushed to a Davao hospital.

    "My order is shoot to kill you. I don't care about human rights, you better believe me," he said.

    Duterte's centerpiece anti-crime drive, focused on an ambitious campaign promise to end the widespread drug problem in six months, has left more than 400 drug suspects dead, many of them either in firefights with police or under suspect circumstances. More than 4,400 have been arrested, police said.

    The unprecedented killings have scared more than half a million drug users and dealers who gave themselves up to police, officials said. An overwhelmed Duterte has said he was considering setting aside areas in military camps nationwide to build rehabilitation centers for those who surrender.

    A legal expert, Jose Manuel Diokno, said Duterte's latest shoot-to-kill order is, at the least, legally questionable.

    http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/
    "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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    Philippines death penalty: ‘The cheaper, the better’

    SPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez said the debate on the method of executing death convicts should focus more on cost―the cheaper, the better.

    In an interview with reporters, Alvarez said lawmakers should not make a big deal of how a death convict should be killed, whether through hanging or firing squad or lethal injection.

    “[Lawmakers] should not argue if death by hanging, firing squad or lethal injection was better, all of them will end up dead anyway,” said Alvarez.

    Alvarez’s preference was for a low-cost method to save on government resources.

    “Whatever is cheaper. As Sen. [Manny] Pacquiao (who preferred the hanging method) said, you just kick the chair,” said Alvarez.

    He proposed that the Executive branch be allowed to make the decision on the mode of execution. President Duterte has announced in his campaign he wanted the shock value of a double hanging.

    Alvarez has filed a resolution reimposing the death penalty on heinous crimes which was abolished in 2006, adding he was determined to have it approved by Congress to deter the worsening crime rate in the country.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.ca/...er-better.html
    "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."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “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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    Over 1080 people have now been killed in the War on Drugs. The average is over 100 a week.

    http://news.abs-cbn.com/specials/map...e-war-on-drugs
    "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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    ‘You can kill them’: Filipino police chief tells drug addicts to kill dealers

    The chief of police in the Philippines told a group of drug users to kill dealers and burn their homes in a speech similar to one given by the country’s president Rodrigo Duterte on the day he took office in June.

    On that day, Duterte entered a Manila slum and told residents to “go ahead and kill (drug users) yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”

    Since then, nearly 2,000 suspected drug pushers and users have been killed in the Philippines. Police have blamed drug dealers resisting arrest or gang feuds for the high number, according to the Associated Press.

    Philippines chief Ronald dela Rosa is leading Duterte’s crusade against drugs. He met with a group of about 1,300 drug users and pushers who had voluntarily surrendered to the police in Bacolod City Thursday and told them it was OK to kill the dealers.

    “You can kill them because you are the victims. Go to them, pour gasoline on their houses and burn it down. Show them your anger,” dela Rosa said.

    He told the crowd the dealers were getting wealthy while they were the victims.

    Before being elected, Duterte promised to wipe out drugs and told drug dealers they would need to clean up their act or they could be killed.

    Since Duterte was elected, his polling numbers have gone through the roof as a recent poll has seen his support climb to 91 per cent.

    Phelim Kine, Human Rights Watch’s deputy Asia director, said Duterte “is steamrolling the rule of law and its advocates both at home and abroad.” The killings suggest his aggressive rhetoric advocating extrajudicial solutions to criminality has found a receptive audience, Kine said.

    http://globalnews.ca/news/2907139/yo.../?sf34489523=1

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    Philippine anti-crime crusade death toll hits 2,400

    Body Count Doubles in 20 days. 2000 killed in a month

    MANILA (AFP) - The death toll from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody anti-crime crusade has passed the 2,400 mark in the less than three months since he took office, police figures showed on Sunday (Sept 4).

    However, the majority of the killings of supposed drug dealers and other criminals were not credited to the police but listed instead as "deaths under investigation", which means vigilantes may have been responsible.

    Police have killed 1,011 suspected criminals since Mr Duterte took office at the end of June, while there were another 1,391 "deaths under investigation", the figures showed.

    Mr Duterte was elected in a landslide in May vowing to end crime and kill tens of thousands of criminals.

    Since then, police have shot dead several drug suspects every day while other alleged criminals have been killed by mysterious gunmen or turned up dead with crude cardboard signs labelling them drug dealers.

    Police have insisted they only act in self-defence and say the other murders are carried out by drug syndicates trying to silence their members.

    http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-...toll-hits-2400
    "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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    Veloso taken off death row ‘indefinitely’–Yasay

    JAKARTA — President Duterte took up the case of convicted Filipino drug mule Mary Jane Veloso in his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta on Friday, but the details, he said, were “not for public consumption.”

    The President was expected to appeal Veloso’s death sentence, which was scheduled for May 2015, but she was saved by a last-minute reprieve after an appeal by then President Benigno Aquino III.

    Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said both governments felt no urgency to take action in the Veloso case as she had been taken off the execution schedule indefinitely.

    “This is not an urgent issue as of now, let’s finish the process,” Yasay said. “Her scheduled execution had been deferred because she would be testifying in the deposition case against her illegal recruiter. After prosecuting the illegal recruiter who (is one of) the main principals here, and if it turns out in the trial in the Philippines that Mary Jane (was) a victim, then at that point we can ask for clemency soon,” he added.

    Pressed to comment on whether he exchanged notes on antidrug measures with Widodo, Mr. Duterte said, “No, I said that we will continue to respect each others’ judicial processes. The rule of law is what matters; (it) gives order to the community.”

    Yasay said he was hopeful that the case against the illegal recruiter of Veloso, who was caught with 2.5 kilograms of cocaine inside the lining of her luggage at the Indonesian airport in 2010, would be resolved in a year’s time.

    In the meantime, Yasay said Veloso had been allowed to give her deposition in the case pending with the Nueva Ecija Regional Trial Court.

    http://globalnation.inquirer.net/144...finitely-yasay

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    Jokowi: Duterte okayed Filipino death row inmate execution

    JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Monday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had given the green light for the execution of Filipina death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso.

    “President Duterte has given the go-ahead to proceed with the execution,” Jokowi was quoted as saying by Antara news agency in Serang, Banten.

    According to Jokowi, the legal process will be followed up by Attorney General M. Prasetyo.

    “I have explained to [Duterte] about Mary Jane’s situation and I told him that Mary Jane [has been found guilty] for carrying 2.6 kilograms of heroin.

    “I also told him about the delay in the execution during the meeting,” Jokowi said.

    http://www.thestar.com.my/news/regio...oso-execution/
    "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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    The media in both of these countries are reporting two different outcomes to the meeting.
    "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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    'World's worst paedophile' could face death penalty after making 11-year-old girl dig her own grave before killing her

    Prosecutors in the Philippines want to bring the death penalty back for Peter Scully who is accused of abusing young children.

    A man dubbed ‘the world’s worst paedophile’ has been accused of making an 11-year-old girl dig her own grave before killing and burying her.

    Peter Scully, 53, is accused of carrying out sickening sex attacks and torture against young children before selling videos of the abuse around the world.

    The father-of-two appeared in court in the Philippines this week with prosecutors calling for the death penalty.

    In one case, the court was told how police found the remains of an 11-year-old girl under an apartment rented by Scully last year.

    The Australian was captured after the cousins of the girl - who were also locked up - managed to escape.

    The 11-year-old is thought to have been made to dig her own grave before being buried, Metro reported.

    The court was told that Scully also directed a video called Daisy’s Destruction in which a baby was tortured and abused by a masked woman.

    As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, police called the footage “the worst we have encountered in our years campaigning against child pornography".

    He is also accused of running a child porn website which sold on videos to paedophiles in Europe.

    Scully has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and trafficking.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...d-face-8902728

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