09 Dec Hontiveros: Death Penalty and Lower Juvenile Criminal Age Will Create Death Row Kids
Following the revival of the death penalty in the Philippines, a senator take was alarmed over the concurrent effort to restore the death penalty and to lower the juvenile criminal age to 9 years old.
According to ABS-CBN News, Senator Risa Hontiveros said in a press conference organized by Amnesty International-Philippines that the death penalty and the lowering of the age of criminal liability is a deadly combination and that it will condemn Filipino youth to a dark and sinister future in which they will become death row kids.
The stabilized death penalty bill opposes the administration’s deemed rehabilitation programs for convicted drug suspects and criminals, she said.
On December 7, Wednesday, the House justice committee approved the committee report of the consolidated bill reviving the death penalty with the voting of 12-6-1.
There is no practical proof that shows that the death penalty is a powerful and efficient deterrent against crime, the senator added.
Capital punishment is “a cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment, which has a disproportionate impact on the poor and little guarantee that innocent people would not be sentenced to death,” she recounted.
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