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What’s happening?

The 31st anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution showed us how divided this country remains to be. There were 23,000 Duterte supporters who rallied...

‘SC last battleground to stop death penalty reimposition’

THE Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday said the last battleground to stop the reimposition of the death penalty would be the...

The fallacy of the deterrence argument

I was in Tuguegarao when Church people and other equally convinced Filipinos joined the Walk for Life that the Catholic Bishops Conference of the...

Church rallies laity vs slays

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...

Asean solons vs death bill

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...

Opposition to Alvarez: Meet with Senate on death measure

A PALACE official on Tuesday said the crime of plunder should be included among heinous crimes punishable under capital punishment as he taunted lawmakers...

Plunder in ‘death bill’ iffy

SPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez on Sunday said nothing was final about the deletion of plunder on the list of crimes to be punishable by death...

Death on their minds

HOUSE leaders seem hell-bent on ramming through legislation to reinstate the death penalty, in line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s hardline approach to dealing with...

A matter of life and death

The divisive issue on the return of the death penalty is stoking emotions from both sides of the political aisle. The issue is a...

Lawmaker eyes more protection for inmates

House Deputy Minority Leader and Makati City Rep. Luis Campos Jr. has called for the creation of a Capital Defense Unit that would provide...

Messenger of death

House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is so desperate for the death penalty to be restored that he now says members of Congress not in favor...

No to death penalty

The House of Representatives has started the debates on the bill to reinstate death penalty in the country. It is no secret that President...

Our bishops speak

It is wonderful that our bishops have finally, unequivocally and courageously spoken against extrajudicial killings and the death penalty. Speaking truth to power, they...

House members determine number of crimes punishable with death

House Justice Committee Chairman Reynaldo Umali reports, lawmakers in the House of Representatives may be able to pass next month the bill seeking the...
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