Former senatorial candidate Samira Gutoc / photo from ABS CBN |
Marawi civic leader Samira Gutoc has words for senators who
are seeking to reinstate the death penalty punishment in the country, saying
they should instead focus on bills that would improve law enforcement and
prison reforms.
“Revive pro life, not pro death bills,” said the former Otso
Diretso senatorial candidate in a tweet
“Patayin muna ang kagaguhan sa loob ng rehas at enforcement
ng walang inosentet batang nakukulong,” she added
Senator-elect Bong Go and Sen. Manny Pacquiao were among the
senators who filed bills seeking to impose the death penalty in the Philippines.
Go has reportedly filed the Senate Bill (SB) 207 on Tuesday
which seeks the death penalty for drug-related and plunder offenses - as one of his
first bills in the Senate.
"Towards this end, the State shall rationalize penal
sanctions and impose the befitting penalty reserved by the Constitution for the
most heinous crimes, for being grievous, odious, and hateful offenses, which by
reason of their inherent or manifest wickedness, viciousness, atrocity, and
perversity, are repugnant and outrageous to the common standards and norms of
decency and morality in a just, civilized, and ordered society," SB 207
read.
Go’s death penalty proposal would be imposed through lethal
injection.
Meanwhile, Pacquiao’s SB 109 is seeking to impose a penalty
of life imprisonment to death and a fine ranging from P1 million to P10 million
on those crimes related to importing and selling illegal drugs.
Pacquiao’s proposal is focusing on amending Republic Act
9165 or the Comprehensive Drugs Act of 2002.
SB 109 states that those who would protect and coddle any offender
of the Comprehensive Drug Act will face the same punishment and a fine
ranging from P500,000 to P1 million.
Pacquiao explained that drug trafficking remains "a
highly lucrative illicit business with limited risks due to systemic poverty,
ineffective criminal justice institutions, outdated drug control laws, poorly
controlled maritime borders and public corruption."
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