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House of bullies

The fourth most powerful person in the country has made good on his threat to strip those who opposed the death penalty measure of...

Duterte wants rape punishable by death

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Friday chided Congress for passing a watered down version of the death penalty bill, saying that the crime of rape...

Eyes on the Senate

Imagine if there were just one House of Congress. If it were so, then the death penalty would have been reimposed already—despite the uproar...

Everybody unhappy

The approval by the House of Representatives this week of the proposed law bringing back the death penalty for drug-related crimes is one of...

The pale horse: Tokhang and the death penalty

Is the Philippine government looking to retroactively seek permission for the thousands of tokhang murders committed since the beginning of the present administration? The House...

Senate not in a hurry to pass a counterpart death penalty bill

The Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights will not make any move to speed up the passage of a counterpart bill that will...

House approves death penalty bill

The House of Representatives has passed on third and final reading the death penalty bill for drug cases. 216 lawmakers voted in favor of the...

Death penalty bill goes through 3rd and final reading today

The House of Representatives is set to hold a nominal voting on the bill reviving the death penalty for drug cases. This comes, as the...

Undying debate

Buhay Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza appears Monday before the Samahang Plaridel Kapihan sa Manila Hotel, and reiterates his position President Rodrigo Duterte should consider...

Umali explains why rape was removed from death penalty bill

House Justice Committee Chairman Reynaldo Umali gives three reasons why they deleted other heinous crimes, such as rape and plunder, from the list of...

Harbingers of death

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed House Bill 4727 that seeks to reimpose the death penalty on second reading. There was no actual...

Edcel Lagman: Human rights champion

These days, it is easy to get politically disillusioned as it is easy to distrust politicians. The people are bombarded with too many important...

House goes on period of amendment for death penalty bill

The House of Representatives will continue on Wednesday afternoon the period of amendments for the death penalty bill. House Justice Committee Chairman Reynaldo Umali says,...

Umali: Death penalty bill will cover only drug cases

Members of the House Committee on Justice have agreed that only drug cases will be covered by the bill seeking to revive the death...
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