The chair of the House committee on dangerous drugs expressed confidence the renewed push to revive the death penalty would have fewer obstacles now that it was President Rodrigo Duterte himself who made the pitch for capital punishment. | GabrielLaluINQ
“I think it would not be that hard to pass it in the Senate because here in the House, I doubt if problems would arise because we already approved it in the 17th Congress,” he said.
But advocates against the death penalty had argued that data would disprove claims that state executions would deter crimes. Citing numerous research work and studies, the anti-death penalty advocates said in most cases, only the poor are executed and errors in judgment were most likely to send innocent people to death rows.
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