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Fast and furious

Another year is ending. How time flies! By the end of this year, many lives will again be ruined because people insist on celebrating the...

Death penalty, Cha-Cha make for Congress’ history

THE 17th Congress is poised to make history, not only as it considers legislation to restore the death penalty, but also as it debates...

Wish list

To celebrate Christmas, the Akbayan Party-list posted placards along Matiyaga Street in Quezon City to calls on lawmakers to abandon the death penalty and...

Arguments for restoring the death penalty

Opponents of the death penalty are at it again.  So-called human rights advocates and highly politicized leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in the...

Reviving the death penalty

Bringing back the death penalty was one of the major campaign promises of President Duterte. Now that he is President, and unless the Senate...

Please, don’t

Members of different cause-oriented groups picket outside the House of Representatives in Quezon City in a united call on legislators not to reimpose the...

House eyes passage of death penalty bill in May next year

House Committee on Justice Chairperson Reynaldo Umali says, the consolidated death penalty bill may be approved by the House of Representatives on third reading...

A Christmas break

How fortunate we are to have the House of Representatives, wise and sensitive enough to refrain from acting on the proposal to restore the...

Alvarez: Constitution Oks death for heinous crimes

HOUSE Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said Friday the 1987 Constitution was “supreme” over the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights in the reimposition of...

Hontiveros: Only 4 to 5 senators’ nod needed to kill death penalty bill

Senator Risa Hontiveros says, the concurrence of just four to five more senators are needed to kill the measure in the Senate that seeks...

House committee okays death penalty bill

The House Committee on Justice has approved the bill seeking the revival of death penalty. 12 committee members voted ‘yes’ to the measure while 5...

House deliberation on revival of death penalty ongoing

The members of the House Committee on Justice are deliberating on a sub-panel report that recommends the revival of death penalty. It has yet to...

Duterte warns opposition

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday warned that he would soon get even with his critics as Vice President Leni Robredo vowed to lead the...

Death penalty debate on

AN OPPOSITION lawmaker on Wednesday called on Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and the leadership of the House supermajority to allow a conscience vote on the...
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