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Mayor of Quezon City Herbert Baustisa
was called for a revisiting of the country’s death penalty law on Monday after
slapping an alleged Chinese drug trader last week.
Bautista stressed in a phone-patch
interview on Mornings@ANC, that certain members of the public who responded to
the arrest of the Chinese drug dealer wanted to revive the controversial penalty.
He also hopes that Congress will revisit the issue of death punishment, mainly
on drug-related cases.
Citing that drugs can destroy a family,
Baustisa also wanted that Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas
will be "attentive in pushing for the death penalty" and in tracking
people and groups behind the illegal drug trade.
Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
chairperson Etta Rosales meanwhile, said there is no strong evidence substantiating
that the death penalty is in fact decreases criminality. She believes that
warrant of arrest, proper investigation, certainty prosecution and sentence is
what the Philippine law should give priority on to.
The CHR chief said the present global
trend in human rights is the eradication of the death penalty and the
strengthening of uplifting justice. However, Bautista agreed with with
Rosales’ statement and explained that he only wants policymakers to look into
such issue.
The mayor lately apologized to Rosales
after he hit a Chinese national on his face who was caught with 10 kilos of
shabu on Friday. The shabu was with a
street value of approximately P15 million. - Sources: GMA, ABS, Youtube
