Tag: April 29, 2006
Abolish death penalty
PRESIDENT Macapagal-Arroyo is pointing the way toward a more effective and humane justice system when she certified as urgent the passage of a law to abolish the death penalty.
Even though the Philippines last served the death sentence in 2000 (on Alex Bartolome, a convicted rapist), it is among 26 countries worldwide that have stopped carrying out executions despite an existing law on capital punishment.
