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Sotto reiterates bill seeking revival of death penalty has more chances in Senate if limited to “high-level drug traffickers”

By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senate President Tito Sotto on Thursday, May 24, reiterated the proposal to revive the death penalty has more chances of being approved in the Upper House if it was to be limited only to those convicted of high-level drug trafficking. He said the same could not be said of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption proposal to include  rebellion, terrorism and plunder on the list of crimes penalized by death. […]