Senator Ping Lacson and Senate President Tito Sotto — running mates in the upcoming elections — said they now prefer lifetime imprisonment over the death penalty.
[Translation: Tito Sen said he authored a death penalty bill when he became a senator. But in the course of time, his opinion changed. It's the same with me, I'm also a convert... I realized it's more important to save the life of an innocent person who was convicted rather than execute one who was proven guilty and convicted. When I weighed it, I believe it's better to save someone who was wrongly convicted.
Lacson said a movie called"The Life of David Gale" which he saw on the streaming app Netflix made him change his perspective on the death penalty. He said the character in the movie set himself up to show that an innocent man could be executed. Sotto, meanwhile, said he saw a much better solution for the punishment of drug traffickers whom he said were the target of the death penalty bill which he filed when he became a senator in the 90s.high level drug traffickers," he said at the briefing.Sotto even suggested moving such criminals into an environment similar to Alcatraz.
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