(Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) Police officers and other persons of authority should be meted with heavier penalties in the event that they are proven to have a part in covering up heinous crimes. Such is embodied in Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep....
(Unsplash) So-called law enforcers who participate in the cover-up of heinous crimes such as drug trafficking should be slapped with the harsher penalty of up to 20 years in prison instead of the current maximum 12-year jail term. Thus, said Bicol...
The family of slain caregiver Maribel Bacsal, whose body was found inside a plastic container at the compound of her employers in Cainta, Rizal on Monday, is fearing for their safety as the prime suspect in the killing of their kin remained at large as of Wednesday, July 5. Melissa, not her real...
Police said they have a person of interest in the killing of a caregiver whose body was found inside a plastic drum at her employers' house in Cainta, Rizal, Monday afternoon. Police said the body of Maribel Bacsal, 42, was found stuffed inside a blue plastic container inside the compound of an...
The law that reduces the prison time of inmates on account of good behavior shouldn't benefit those convicted of heinous crimes. (Unsplash) This was the stand of Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte and Benguet lone district Rep. Eric Yap, who jointly filed House Bill (HB) No.4649. The full...
Vice presidential aspirant and Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday called on members of the Senate and House of Representatives to expedite the passage into law of the measure that seeks a separate facility for prisoners convicted of heinous crimes. Sotto said Senate Bill No. 1055, or the...
With 222 affirmative and zero negative votes the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Dec. 1 passed on third and final reading the bill providing for the segregation in a separate facility of high-level convicts from those serving time for lesser offenses. Prison cell Passage of House Bill 10355...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima has welcomed Senator Panfilo Lacson’s move to withdraw the bill he filed which seeks to reinstate the death penalty for heinous crimes. De Lima urged the Senate to instead give more push to the bill she filed which seeks to mete qualified reclusion perpetua to...
President Duterte is making a fresh pitch for the reimposition of death penalty for heinous crimes in the country. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) The President, who launched a bloody war on drugs, said he was in favor of the "restoration" of capital punishment especially against...
