One convicted of robbery was rearrested in Bicol while another who was convicted of carnapping was taken in at the Mimaropa region. Both crimes are not categorized as heinous based on Republic Act 7659, the same law used by the Duterte administration in defining who should be arrested again.

RA 7659, signed in 1993, says that heinous crimes include: treason, piracy in general and mutiny on the high seas in the Philippine waters, qualified piracy, qualified bribery, parricide, murder, infanticide, kidnapping and serious illegal detention, robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons, destructive …

Since the penalty prescribed by law is “reclusion temporal in its maximum period to reclusion perpetua,” the crime is bailable (People vs.

The crime of rape shall be punished by reclusion perpetua. When the rape is attempted or frustrated and a homicide is committed by reason or on the occasion thereof, the penalty shall be reclusion perpetua to death. When by reason or on the occasion of the rape, a homicide is committed, the penalty shall be death.

Reclusion temporal. — The penalty of reclusion temporal shall be from twelve years and one day to twenty years. Prision mayor and temporary disqualification. — The duration of the penalty of arresto menor shall be from one day to thirty days.

Reclusión perpetua does not allow pardon or parole until after the first 30 years of the sentence have been served, and after 40 years without pardon or parole, the sentence expires.

Republic Act No. Seven Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Nine (R.A. No. 7659), otherwise known as the Death Penalty Law, and all other laws, executive orders and decrees, insofar as they impose the death penalty are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

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The 1987 Philippines’ Constitution was the first in Asia to prohibit the use of the death penalty, stating that: ‘the death penalty shall not be imposed unless for compelling reasons involving heinous crimes, the Congress hereafter provides for it.

The death penalty is not a good example of blind justice. Studies show that the mentally ill, people of color, and the poor make up the majority of death row inmates. In the United States, between 5-10% of prisoners on death row have a severe mental illness, according to Mental Health America.

The death penalty violates the most fundamental human right – the right to life. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. The death penalty is discriminatory. An innocent person may be released from prison for a crime they did not commit, but an execution can never be reversed.

The Philippines was the first Asian country to abolish the death penalty under the 1987 Constitution, but it was re-imposed during the administration of President Fidel Ramos to address the rising crime rate in 1993, only to be abolished again in 2006 after then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed a law reducing …

The death penalty is a violation of human rights. Executions violate the right to life. The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. They included Menda Sakae, who believes that other prisoners may have been executed despite their innocence.

Originally, one of the reasons for the induction haircut was to reduce the chances of disease among closely quartered recruits from different geographical areas (with varying immunities), such as head lice. Furthermore, short hair also prevents the enemy from grabbing a soldier with long hair and slashing his/her neck.