Are you in favor for the re-imposition of the death penalty? Why or why not?

“I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital
punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.” -George W.
Bush
The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the state-sanctioned execution of
a person as a punishment for a crime. A death sentence is a sentence that requires someone to be
punished with the death penalty, and an execution is the act of carrying out that sentence. A
prisoner who is about to be executed has been sentenced and is now "on death row." Capital
crimes, capital offences, or capital felonies are crimes that are punishable by death and vary
depending on the jurisdiction. However, serious crimes against people, such as murder, mass
murder, aggravated rape, child rape, child sexual abuse, terrorism, war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and genocide, as well as crimes against the state, such as attempting to overthrow the
government, treason, espionage, sedition, piracy, and aircraft hijacking, are frequently included.
Recidivism, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping, in addition to drug trafficking, drug dealing,
and drug possession, are all considered capital crimes or enhancements in some cases. The
Philippines' deteriorating human rights situation worsened this week when the government began
considering bills to reinstate the death penalty. The House Committee on Justice's action came a
week after President Rodrigo Duterte used his State of the Nation Address to call for drug
offenders to be executed by lethal injection.
For me, if death penalty is the only way to lessen the crime rate in our country, I will on
it. I am favor in death penalty, why? Because I believe that death penalty is the only way that can
lessen the crime rate in our country. Criminals will be afraid to commit more crimes because of
the death penalty and it also saves many innocent lives. Death penalty is more legal than
extrajudicial killing or EJK because it passes through law and court that if you are proven
innocent, you can be set free. There is no wrong with death penalty because it can even help to
scare people away from committing a crime. For example, a murderer who can kill many people
has been sentence to death, his death can save many lives because if you imprison him, there are
tendency that the murderer can escape in the prison and make more crimes. If someone in your
family was raped and murdered by this people, are you want to imprison him? Or a death
sentence? If you imprison the suspect, you condone his crime and your tax also feed him inside
the jail. If you seek a true justice, you should agree in death penalty to those who commit
nefarious crime. I believe that everything must be balanced so that there should be an eye for an
eye system. I think our government should pass the re- imposition of death penalty in our
country to lessen the crime rate in our country. Because for me, not all people are willing to
change even they are suffered in prison for many years. If they want to do a crime, no one can
stop that because all of us have their own decision. To stop that people, I think it is okay to kill
the criminal before the criminal kill many innocent lives. I know that human rights are against in
death penalty, but we will just let the criminal who committed a heinous crime just rot in jail and
be fed three more times a day by our taxes? I think it is unfair for those who loses their loved
ones because of the criminal.
As expressed, all those things must think carefully by our government to avoid the
conflict in our country. It is a difficult matter because it includes the life of our citizen either it is
innocent or the one who commit crimes. The government should have many trials if death
penalty was pass and become a law in our country to avoid conflict and there is no life wasted.
There is nothing to be afraid in death penalty if you have not any intention to commit crimes and
hurt other for the sake of yourself.

Choose 1 among the sections of the Bill of Rights (EXCLUDING Section 19 on Death Penalty)
which is important for you. Please explain why.

Section 11. Free access to the courts and quasi-judicial bodies and adequate legal assistance shall
not be denied to any person by reason of poverty.

Every criminal case is between an individual and the government. The government
formally accuses a man for having committed a crime. To assure that the truth will be discover
and that justice will be done, there has a right to free access to the courts and quasi-judicial
bodies. The state has the constitutional duty to provide free and adequate legal assistance to
citizens when by reason of indigence or lack of financial means. Any person under investigation
for the commission of an offense shall have the right to be informed of his right to remain silent
and to have competent and independent counsel preferably of his own choice. If a person cannot
afford the services of the counsel, he must be provided with one. These rights cannot be waived
except in writing and in the presence of counsel. No torture, force, violence, threat, intimidation,
or any other means which vitiate the free will shall be used against him. Secret detention places,
solitary, incommunicado, or other similar forms of detention are prohibited. Any confession or
admission obtained in violation of this, or Section 17 hereof shall be inadmissible in evidence
against him. The law shall provide for penal and civil sanctions for violations of this section as
well as compensation to and rehabilitation of victims of torture or similar practices and their
families.
It is very helpful for many citizens to have a right to use or to have access to the courts or
other quasi-judicial bodies and has an adequate legal assistance because many people in the
Philippines have not enough knowledge about the laws or other legal process. Many Filipinos
also have lack in financial aspect on their lives so that they cannot afford to hire a lawyer if they
are in a case or in trial. It is very helpful for the poor citizens that are wrong accused by the other
or innocent because they can defend by their self in the accusation. We all know that we have the
rights to defend ourselves in the accusation of other but there is the right person that can help you
to defend yourself from the accusation and that is the lawyer. We have a right to have a lawyer to
defend ourselves during the court trials and it may help a lot for the people who are innocent and
got a wrong accusation. Imagine if there is no right in using the court or other quasi-judicial
bodies and there is no adequate legal assistance to all citizens in the Philippines and only rich can
have access to it. What will happen to our justice system? Only the rich people have a justice
while poor people does not have any justice because they can not afford to it. It will be very
unfair to all, and it has a tendency of civil war because of it.
As a result, we all must respect the rights of other people even it is poor or rich. There is
no poor or rich in the eyes of the law, even you can not read or write, even you can buy many
cars or houses, even you have a disability, or other things, there is no exemption in the law. We
are all equally in the front of court and law. As long as we have this justice system, we cannot be
afraid to others even you have nothing. Just make sure that you are not doing wrong or crime,
your rights as an individual still in yours.
“Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass
and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having
the same opportunity for a career; politically all conscience having the same right. Equality has
an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet.”
-Victor Hugo