VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO death penalty imposed on employer of domestic worker
The death penalty was abolished in 2006 and replaced by life imprisonment as maximum punishment.
The death penalty was abolished in 2006 and replaced by life imprisonment as maximum punishment.
Two YouTube videos wrongly claimed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the Senate have approved the reinstatement of the death penalty. This is a clickbait. The video merely discussed viewpoints in favor of the death penalty bills pending in the Senate. First uploaded on July 30, the 11-minute video bore the erroneous headline: “JUST IN […]
Bilang tugon sa mga natuklasan kamakailan ni forensic pathology expert Dr. Raquel Fortun na nakadiskubre ng mga hindi pagkakatugma sa mga ulat sa autopsy ng mga biktima ng drug war, sinabi ni Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa na handa siyang bitayin kung mahatulan siya ng lokal na hukuman para sa anumang maling gawain. Wala itong basehan.
A Philippine court cannot sentence him to hanging because the country already outlawed the death penalty on June 24, 2006 when then-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Republic Act 9346. This outlawed capital punishment in the country, which was previously allowed and carried out through lethal injection.
In a span of four years, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa went from supporting the death penalty for all illegal drug offenders as director-general of the Bureau of Corrections to proposing rehabilitation for users. Now, the former Philippine National Police chief says he has “second thoughts” about his own measure.
Sa loob ng apat na taon, nagbago ang pananaw ni Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa tungkol sa pagtrato sa mga illegal drug offender. Bilang director-general ng Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), sinuportahan niya ang parusang kamatayan para sa lahat ng mga nagkasala kaugnay ng ilegal na droga hanggang kanyang iminungkahi ang rehabilitasyon para sa mga gumagamit. Ngayon, sinabi ng dating Philippine National Police (PNP) chief na “nagdadalawang isip” siya tungkol sa sarili niyang panukala.
In pushing for a bill that reinstates the death penalty for large-scale illegal drug trafficking, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa claimed that lethal injection is the “universally accepted” method of capital punishment. This is wrong.
Sa pagsusulong ng panukalang batas na magbabalik ng parusang kamatayan para sa malakihang ilegal na trafficking ng droga, sinabi ni Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa na ang lethal injection ay ang “universally accepted” na paraan ng parusang kamatayan. Mali ito.
Eleven of the 26 prisoners in the image were later executed for various crimes.
The claims made about the death penalty for the crime of rape in five nations, four of them Islamic, need context.