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Manila, Philippines – On Saturday, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference
of the Philippines (CBCP) vowed to continuously block the passage of the death
penalty bill.
The CBCP released a statement following the news that Senate
will resume its hearing on death penalty this month.
The Senate will continue its public hearing in passing the
bill to be led by Senator Manny Pacquiao.
“We will not give up in engaging lawmakers in working for
justice that heals and respects the dignity of the human person,” Rodolfo
Diamante said in a statement, the executive secretary of the CBCP-Episcopal
Commission on Prison Pastoral Care.
“The CBCP-ECPC will continue to lobby for the passage of
laws that will be consistent with the Gospel values,” he said. “We hope and
pray that the members of the Senate will vote in accordance with their
conscience.”
Next week, Senator Pacquiao as the head of the panel under
the Committee on Justice will conduct a public hearing on eight pending
measures about the revival of the death penalty in the country.
Meanwhile, Senator Panfilo Lacson earlier said that
conducting hearings would just be a waste of time since majority of the senators
are not in favor of the death penalty.
Opposition Sen. Francis Pangilinan, a member of the Liberal Party,
said that he would continue to support the LP stand against death penalty.
However, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, one of
the prominent supporter of reviving the death penalty, earlier said that he
believed it would get a majority vote in the Senate if the penalty applied only
to high-level drug traffickers.
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