MALACAÑANG on Wednesday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has not made any decision on whether to revive the death penalty amid renewed public calls...
Following the recent kidnapping of a 14-year-old Chinese student in Taguig City—where the perpetrators severed the victim’s finger—Senator Ronald Dela Rosa, seeking re-election, vowed...
Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. yesterday renewed his call for the restoration of capital punishment following the death of a Dela Salle student who...
Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers has filed House Bill 1543 which seeks to restore capital punishment for illegal drug-related offenses and other...
The Commission on Human Rights on Sunday said that it remains opposed to the return of capital punishment.
“Despite formidable efforts to reintroduce the death...
It may be ill-timed as the Philippines is still fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, but Senator Richard Gordon said Monday he will fairly conduct hearings...
MORE than 10,000 people, including bishops, priests, sisters and lay people, gathered at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila to protest the continued killings of...
Philippine legislators joined their Southeast Asian counterparts Wednesday in urging the Duterte administration to rethink its position on reinstating capital punishment.
At a news conference, members of the...
HOUSE Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said Friday the 1987 Constitution was “supreme” over the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights in the reimposition of...
Buhay Party-List Rep. Lito Atienza has a startling suggestion to congressmen who want to tinker with the Constitution and restore the death penalty. He...
PRESIDENT-ELECT Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday the reimposition of capital punishment was not aimed at deterring crime but at having the criminal elements pay for...
