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Death Penalty

Laurel, R. (2019, February 15). Why you should support death penalty. Retrieved from
https://kami.com.ph/20045-support-death-penalty.html.

This site is about death penalty that Rodrigo duterte push to return the death penalty because of

rising rise of alarming of crimes here in Philippines. In this site you can read about 5 solid reason

why death penalty should be back.

Here are some of the part of the site:

The issue on death penalty has raised more debates today in the country since President-elect

Duterte opened the doors on its re-imposition during his three month campaign and continues on

insisting it despite the recent sermon of Pope Francis. However, Vice President-elect Maria Leonora

“Leni” Robredo and former Justice Secretary and Senator-elect Leila de Lima are vocal of their

opposition. For them, death penalty does more harm than good. But, does it? The following are

strong reasons why people need to reconsider their inherent abhorrence to the death penalty and

replace it with openness and acceptance. Read more: https://kami.com.ph/20045-support-death-

penalty.html

1. To revive people’s fear of the consequences of law violation “We have a society now where

obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only,” Duterte quipped. It is not anymore a

surprise for Filipinos to see fellow citizens violating the law. One cannot just summon its people to

follow a simple traffic rule. There are vehicular accidents left and right and most of it are because of
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lack of discipline and lack of fear of the consequences of violating the law. Death penalty may help

put this to an end.

2. Crime deterrence Robredo, former human rights lawyer, earlier said that death is not the solution

to lower the high crime rate of the country. She believes that it does not prevent the commission of

heinous crimes, mentioning the instances of giving such penalty under the Marcos and Ramos

administration. Duterte admitted that “(d)espite the fact that there is the death penalty law at that

time, it never deterred the criminals from committing their acts.”

3. Retribution Both the victims and families of the victims of heinous crimes have no voice to shout

how they struggle everyday feeling every bit of excruciating pain brought about by injustice. People

do not know what they need to go through daily just to move on and let the incident past behind

them. How can the mother of a poor three year old, raped and murdered, sleep soundly at night and

move on? How can a hopeless father who drives the jeepney to send his only daughter to a good

school look at life the same way again after she was raped and parts of her body were decapitated? It

is because of them Duterte pushes for the death penalty.

4. Less expense and less unprecedented offense Criminals in prisons exceed the limit of people

allowed to be inside a jail. They say it is because of lack of fund. Most of them sleep literally beside

each other, smelling each other’s breath and feeling each other’s sweat. They wake up and get fed

three times a day.

5. To discourage taking of innocent lives They say that imposing the death penalty puts innocent

lives at risk, but not imposing it puts more innocent lives at risk especially if we let the heartless

criminals live and kill more people. Yes, no justice system is and would ever be perfect. There is

always the possibility of convicting the wrong person, with or without the death penalty, but it is

beyond human ability to ever control it.

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Unlisted. (2019, July 27). Pabor ka bang ibalik ang death penalty?: Pang-Masa. Retrieved from
https://www.philstar.com/pang-masa/para-malibang/2019/07/28/1938491/pabor-ka-bang-ibalik-ang-death-
penalty.

This site is about other opinions of people if they agree or not about death penalty. Everyone has

their own opinion and points about death penalty.

Here are some of the part of this website:

“Hindi, dahil kawawa ang mga mahihirap ang ito-torture, paaaminin ang mahirap sa kasalanang hindi

naman niya ginawa samantalang ang mayamang salarin ay tumatawa.” - Sam, Quezon City

“Napapanahon na! Sobra na ang kriminalidad sa bansa natin. Kailangan na ng kamay na bakal.

Binaboy ng mga kriminal ang buhay, sila ang walang karapatang mabuhay.” - Arjo, Bulacan

“Kahit ano pwede. Ang mahalagang punto naman ng death penalty ay magkaroon ng takot na

gumawa ng krimen ang masasamang loob. Kung maghihinay ka walang mabibitay at ito talaga ang

layunin ng batas, ‘wag magpakalublob at idamay ang iba sa kasamaan. Basta tiyakin lang na ‘wag

naman small pusher at user ang pagbibitayin. Dapat pati big time drug lords, patayin.” - Lito, Laguna

“Firing squad mas maganda para makita ng lahat kung paano kitilan ng buhay ang mga taong

sumisira sa mamayang Pilipino.” - Estoy, Ilocos

“Sang-ayon ako sa bitay pero unahin yong mga taong gobyerno na protektor. Lalo na sa illegal drugs

dahil hindi makapasok ang illegal drugs kung walang taga-loob na nagpoprotekta nito. Kaya

nagaganap ang karumal-dumal na krimen dahil nasa ilalim ng droga ang salarin.” - Lemuel, Sarangani
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