I can’t believe that I’m saying this; WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE ALIVE.
Before President Duterte assumed office last year, I was in favor of bringing it back because no one was afraid of committing a crime during the last three years of the Aquino administration. But when the talks of the death penalty rose from the ashes only to know that it will not put rape, treason, and plunder as grounds for capital punishment it just left me disappointed. Just like how a kid was so excited to ask his parents for a brand new toy, until your father tells you that he just went jobless after his place of work got closed. No thanks from the world market.
The “refined” version of death penalty here in the Philippines is on the verge of resurrection. No thanks to the majority of the Philippine congress. The Philippine senate has yet to make progress.
What’s the matter lawmakers from the House of Representatives? Too guilty to put the following crimes as grounds for capital punishment?
If I only knew, you people are just too scared that you really saved your skins first before putting principles first. That is if you have any.
You can’t simply count with your fingers the number of congressmen who are just too dumb to bring back the death penalty because they want to get rid of the drug addicts, drug pushers, drug lords and the like. It’s either they’re too scared of President Duterte to reject the bill that might revive the death penalty after the third reading, or they’re simply riding on the popularity of President Duterte to bring it back.
To me, why bring back a system that didn’t help to lessen criminality in this country if the old ‘Oplan Tokhang’ got rebranded to ‘Project Double-Barrel Reloaded’ and still get the same results after this? Even if it says on paper that it will be less bloody. Which everybody doubts.
To bring it back to the system is making those other crimes look decriminalized.
Which is why the suspect of the road-rage shooting at the intersection of Quezon Avenue and Tuazon, Fredison Atienza is hiding from the law, but then you would realize that Rolito Go, who did the same manner of crime didn’t get the lethal injection. Instead, he served a life sentence since shooting Eldon Maguan. We are just hoping that whatever sickness Go has would take his life soon.
It’s just simply pointless when this gets back to our government system. It’s simply pointless when this will not be imposed on foreigners who are operating their drug rackets here. I’m not saying that we should get even with China who has given the death penalty to Filipinos that became drug mules not only in China. Syndicates that turned overseas Filipino workers to drug mules didn’t just deploy them on China. They have deployed some to Arab countries, and those Arab countries have a tighter grip when it comes to that.
In our manner of handling drug offenders to foreigners, deportation is only making it worse because it leaves a mark. Not unless the drug racketeer knows how to tie loose ends when they get deported.
If this really gets back soon, I only hope that the government still has enough chemicals for lethal injection because it would be a shame if we are too old school by sentencing them to death by hanging.
Then again, we are a third world country. We could not afford such chemicals yet to bring back the manner Leo Echegaray got his death sentence in 1999. We could only spend less by sentencing them to hanging because ropes that are huge in diameter, looking very thick are the most affordable way of imposing it. Just don’t forget the bag to mask the face of the criminal.
Scrawny Man from Manila 