On Tuesday the House of Representatives’ justice committee will soon start deliberating on a bill to reinstate the death penalty, after a sub-panel approved the proposal.
During a hearing by the judicial reforms subcommittee, six congressmen voted to submit a substitute bill re-imposing capital punishment for heinous crimes, such as illegal drugs, murder, rape, arson, and kidnapping.
Another five voted for a version of the proposal that would have limited the death penalty to illegal drug-related crimes.
The reimposition of capital punishment is one of the House’s priority measures (the other being the proposal to revert the minimum age of criminal responsibility to nine) which Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said would be passed before the Christmas break of Congress.