Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa has renewed his push for the imposition of the death penalty on convicted high-level drug traffickers in the 19th Congress. The death penalty bill is among the first 20 bills that dela Rosa filed early this week at the Senate. Last June, Dela Rosa, who was at the...
Anti-death penalty advocates were called on by a Catholic bishop to “exert more efforts” to change the views of pro-death penalty Filipinos. (Photo courtesy of Pixabay) Bishop Joel Baylon, the head of the Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care, lamented that many Filipinos still see the...
NEW YORK, United States -- An African-American teen executed in 1931 for the murder of a white woman was exonerated by a Pennsylvania court this week, after decades of lobbying by his only surviving sister. Alexander McClay Williams, age 16, was convicted by a white jury in just four hours, and...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia's government said Friday it has agreed to abolish the mandatory death penalty, with campaigners welcoming the move but cautioning the country had failed to deliver on previous vows to improve rights. The death penalty remains mandatory for several offences in the...
LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine -- Pro-Russian rebels sentenced to death two British fighters and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine, as a Ukrainian governor called for Western arms on Thursday to win the battle for a crucial eastern city. The death sentences come as Moscow concentrates...
DAVAO CITY – Senator Christopher Lawrence ‘Bong’ Go said he will still push for the enactment of a law that calls for the re-imposition of the death penalty in the coming Congress under the new administration. Go said in an interview at Davao Oriental Provincial Medical Center in Mati City on...
People display placards and led lights during a vigil for Malaysian national Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, at Speakers corner in Singapore on April 25, 2022. Roslan RAHMAN / AFP SINGAPORE, Singapore – A mentally disabled Malaysian man...
Presidential aspirant and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso said he is against the death penalty. During the DZBB “Ikaw Na Ba” presidential interview on Wednesday, Feb. 2, Domagoso was asked about his stance on the death penalty. “Siguro matanong natin sa ating sarili ito kung...
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno will push for the use of renewable energy in the country to lower power rates if he clinches a Senate seat in the May 2022 polls. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) Diokno, a senatorial aspirant, lamented that consumers are always...
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...
Prison cell The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines- Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (CBCP-ECPPC) welcomed the recent pronouncement of Senators Panfilo Lacson and Vicente Sotto III that they are no longer supporting the restoration of death penalty. The CBCP said that this...
Human rights lawyer and senatorial candidate Jose Manuel "Chel" Diokno reiterated his firm stand against the revival of death penalty even if put in a situation where he had to deal with a heinous crime committed to his own family. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)...
