H.B. 2080 “Death Penalty Act of 2014”
Section 3. The Death Penalty is hereby imposed for heinous crimes specified in Republic Act no. 7659, otherwise known as the Death Penalty Law and all other laws, executive orders and decrees imposing death penalty. Republic Act No. 7659 is thus hereby revived and activated.
R.A. 9346 “An Act Prohibiting The Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines”
SECTION 1. The imposition of the penalty of death is hereby prohibited. Accordingly, Republic Act No. Eight Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Seven (R.A. No. 8177), otherwise known as the Act Designating Death by Lethal Injection is hereby repealed. 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Penalty Law, and all other laws, executive orders and decrees, insofar as they impose the death penalty are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.
Alarmed by the influx of heinous crimes, Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III has sought the revival of Republic Act 7659 or the Death Penalty Law in the country through lethal injection.
In filing Senate Bill 2080 known as “An Act imposing death penalty in the Philippines,” Sotto sought to repeal Republic Act No. 9346 otherwise known as “An act prohibiting the imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines…
This was consistent , he said, with the rationale of R.A. 7659 or the Death Penalty Law, which provides that death penalty is appropriately necessary “due to the alarming upsurge of such crimes which has resulted not only in the loss of human lives and wanton destruction of property but also affected the nation’s efforts towards sustainable economic development and prosperity while at the same time has undermined the people’s faith in the Government and the latter’s ability to maintain peace and order in the country.”
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