PRIORITY BILLS NI PANG. DUTERTE, MAS MABILIS MAISASABATAS; DEATH PENALTY; MAKAKALUSOT NA KAYA??
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Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said Thursday that the proposal to reinstatement death penalty on high level drug trafficking crime may be marked as priority in the coming 18th Congress, but stressed this would not automatically mean passage through the Senate.
The death penalty has a twisting past in the Philippines, having been outlawed in 1987, reinstated six years later and then abolished again in 2006. A capital punishment bill that passed the House in 2017 allowed execution in cases where suspects were caught with 500 grams (about 18 ounces) of marijuana, or 10 grams of cocaine, heroin or ecstasy.
