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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Speak out: Death penalty
By Jenner S. Lobedica
San Remigio, Cebu
Will an abolition of death penalty laudable in today’s information age? On one hand, it is laudable in the sense that death penalty has not deterred the upsurge of violent and ghastly crimes like massacres, rape, murder, robbery, the illegal drug trade and large-scale illegal recruitment.
It has not deterred crimes despite the electrocution of death convicts Baby Ama, Bibiano Anglo alias ‘Bianong Bulag’, Jaime Jose, Roger Canial, Ruben Ablaza and a host of others including Leo Echegaray who died through lethal injection.
The electric chair at Muntinlupa was installed by the Americans in 1900 and was hit by lightning sometime in 1977, therefore, destroyed.
The lethal injection was adopted in 1999. So many death convicts died through this form of capital punishment.
Second, the abolition of death penalty is in consonance with the noble tenets of our penal institution to reform our criminals into righteous and law-abiding citizens of our nation. Hw can we reform our offenders if they are dead through capital punishment?
On the other hand, the abolition of death penalty will only emboldened the criminal elements to commit more heinous and shocking crimes to the detriment of the unsuspecting and hapless victims across the archipelago.
The progressive and advanced countries in the world like America, England, France and Germany retained the capital punishment in their penal institutions as effective deterrent to crimes and in adherence to the vindictive policy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
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