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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4-E738Sp8 (Editor’s Note: In an interview with Eagle News Service in July 2019, former President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III gives his views about several issues. We are re-publishing this exclusive interview to share the insights of the late President Noynoy Aquino who passed away on June 24, 2021. In this part of the video interview, he shares that in his younger years, he was for the death penalty, and would often even have […]
(Eagle News) — With 216 “yes” votes and 54 “no” votes, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading the bill seeking to reimpose the death penalty in the country. House Bill 4727 was passed on Tuesday, March 7, just six days after its second reading approval on voice voting. This time, through nominal voting, there was only one abstention, as lawmakers expressed their votes before the passage of the bill. Only drug-related […]
(Eagle News) – The House of Representatives passed on second reading early Wednesday evening (March 1) the controversial death penalty bill, even as opposition congressmen tried to block its passage. House Bill 4727 was passed in just less than a minute, through a voice vote, after the House agreed that only drug offenses would be covered by capital punishment. The death penalty will also not be mandatory since there can be a choice between […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte again pushed for the return of capital punishment in the country, citing statistics that showed a more than 3,000 percent increase in heinous crimes after the death penalty was scrapped in 2006. During a speech at the Manila Times 5th Business Forum in Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City on February 10, 2017, the President said the statistics provided by the Bureau of Corrections itself showed that the death […]
(Eagle News) – The first bill filed in the 17th Congress under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is one seeking to reimpose the death penalty on heinous crimes, not through hanging as what the President suggested, but through lethal injection. House Bill no. 1 is authored by Davao del Norte Representative and incoming House Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez and Capiz Rep. Fredenil Castro. According to this bill, there is a need to reimpose […]
