If he gets his way, Filipino senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would ha...
MANILA - If he gets his way, Filipino senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would have drug criminals executed by firing squad.
It comes at the behest of President Rodrigo Duterte, the popular, self-styled “punisher”, notorious for his crackdowns on crime, and a war on drugs that has killed thousands of mostly poor, urban Filipinos. “If you ask me, firing squad,” he told Reuters, when asked how they should be dealt with. “But it depends on what the people want, as long as death penalty is imposed.”Though opinion polls put Duterte’s approval rating consistently above 80%, the same surveys reflect mixed views on his policies, including a poll 11 months ago that showed less than a third of Filipinos agreed with reviving the death penalty.
In the country’s largest prison, two-thirds of the 27,756 population are serving sentences for heinous crimes, according to the corrections department. Duterte’s opponents say the chance of miscarriages of justice are greater now than when capital punishment was last used. From 1993 to 2004, 72% of death penalty verdicts reviewed by the Supreme Court were overturned, sparing 677 people.
For Duterte, executing criminals was his top priority, with a bill put to Congress on the first day of his presidency. The lower house overwhelmingly approved it, but it never reached the Senate, where resistance was anticipated, including from the influential Catholic Church, the country’s dominant faith.
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