REPORT

IN
HUMAN RIGHTS
EDUCATION

RELOZA, RYAN R.
RELANO, GERALD S.
 ARTICLE III
BILL OF RIGHTS
SECTION 19.

<Excessive
fines shall not
be imposed,
nor cruel,
degrading or
inhuman
punishment
inflicted.
Neither shall
death penalty
be imposed,
unless, for
compelling
reasons
involving
heinous crimes,
the
Congress
hereafter
provides for it.
Any death
penalty already
imposed
shall be reduced
to reclusion
perpetua.=
<Excessive
fines shall not
be imposed,
nor cruel,
degrading or
inhuman
punishment
inflicted.
Neither shall
death penalty
be imposed,
unless, for
compelling
reasons
involving
heinous crimes,
the
Congress
hereafter
provides for it.
Any death
penalty already
imposed
shall be reduced
to reclusion
perpetua.=
“Excessive fines shall not be imposed, nor cruel, degrading or
inhuman punishment inflicted. Neither shall death penalty be
imposed, unless, for compelling reasons involving heinous crimes,
the Congress hereafter provides for it. Any death penalty already
imposed shall be reduced to reclusion perpetua.”
“The employment of physical, psychological, or degrading
punishment against any prisoner or detainee or the use of
substandard or inadequate penal facilities under subhuman
conditions shall be dealt with by law.”
RIGHTS AGAINST EXCESSIVE FINES
Courts will be justified in declaring a fine prescribed by a statute excessive
only when it is clearly so, considering the nature of the offense and the ability of
the person punished to pay the fine.

RIGHT AGAINST CRUEL, DEGRADING, OR INHUMAN

PUNISHMENTS.
It can be said that punishments are cruel and/or inhuman when they involve
torture or lingering death, such as burning alive, mutilation, starvation, drowning,
and other barbarous punishments.

Punishment is degrading when it brings shame and humiliation to the victim

or exposes him to contempt or ridicule, or lowers his dignity and self-respect as a
human being.

IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY

Section 19 abolishes the death penalty. It shall not inflicted unless Congress
decides to reinstate it. Death penalties already imposed upon the effectivity of the
new constitution were automatically commuted to reclusion perpetua or life
imprisonment.
Example 1
If you are a defendant, no excessive fine, cruel, degrading, or unjust
punishment, especially the death penalty, should be imposed, unless there is a law
passed by Congress that makes you subject to the death penalty, if the crime you
committed was misdemeanor or serious. All those sentenced to death before the
1987 Freedom Constitution was enacted were reduced to life imprisonment when

the new Constitution that replaced Marcos' Martial Law Constitution took effect.

(2)
The employment of physical, psychological, or degrading punishment
against any prisoner or detainee or the use of substandard or inadequate penal
facilities under subhuman conditions shall be dealt with by law

Appropriate laws shall apply to the physical, psychological, or degrading

punishment of any prisoner or detainee or to the use of inhumane penal facilities.

Example 2
All prisoners also have the protection of the law because they are still
citizens of the Philippines and as human beings they still have rights. Anyone who
inflicts physical, psychological, or dehumanizing punishment on a prisoner shall be
held accountable by law.