DEATH PENALTY

INTRODUCTION
A pleasant afternoon, I'm here speaking in front of you with Mr. Nolasco and ms. Banaria/Liwag to tell you that we
highly agree to re-implement the death penalty in our country. The death penalty requires law enforcement to punish
those guilty criminals who committed horrible crimes that are punished by law. We are in favor of death penalty be
legalized because of these reasons. First, death penalty deters crime which prevent the criminals to commit future
crimes. Second, We are not killing a great number of people; rather, we are protecting a large number of
them.Third,We are reducing people who are under the influence of drugs and may commit horrible acts as a result
of their drug use. And lastly, to improve the criminal justice of the Philippines.

MGA BUTAS/HOLES:
-INJUSTICE SYSTEM OF THE PHILIPPINES (NASAGOT)
- MISJUDGE OR CONVICTING THE WRONG PERSON (NASAGOT)
- DEATH PENALTY IS FAVORED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY (NASAGOT)
-DEATH PENALTY IS ANTI-POOR PEOPLE (NASAGOT)
-CRIMINALS CAN CHANGE (NASAGOT)
-VIOLATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (NASAGOT)
-IT DOESN’T DETERS CRIME (NASAGOT)
-DEATH PENALTY IS INHUMANE AND CRUEL PUNISHMENT (NASAGOT)
 Rebat:
IT DOESN’T DETERS CRIME & CRIMINAL CAN CHANGE:
 Giving them second chances increase the possibility of harming people in the future. Human are capable of
doing anything. If they are just imprisoned and got free from jail, they would think that they can get away from
commiting heinous crimes. And putting them in jail doesn’t guarantee you they would change. Whether there
is a consultation or rehabilitation, if the patterns goes on and on, going to jail, getting petitioned and freed from
jail, and getting imprisoned again, they won’t be afraid of law anymore, because they can get away from a
murder and commit a murder again. The cycle won’t stop (AIRA)

 Keeping murder alive can only cause further harm to people(AIRA)

 Criminals who commited heinous crimes do those unlawful things because they are not afraid of the law
anymore. So implementing death penalty can be a reason to be afraid of the law. (AIRA)

 Nothing will deter a criminal than fear of death. Life behind the bars is less feared, even preferred by
some who do not have a roof and cannot eat three times a day.

 If you’re saying that they have the chance to change, well they also have the chance to stay what they
are.
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 Would you rather let a serial killer wander around the vicinity of your city when you could be the next possible
target? Would you let a serial killer live in prison for his entire life after killing numerous people and not repent
for his sins and unlawful acts he’ve done to people? And what if he escaped from prison and kill people again?
One person on a death row equivalents to 8-13 people’s live that could be save. (DETERENCY OF CRIME
rebat)

INJUSTICE OF THE PHILIPPINES

 I believe there had never been a perfect justice system. No matter how complete and thorough a justice system
is, once in a while, a wrong person is put in prison. This is due to a lot of factors, such as poor detective work
and non-credible eyewitness' testimony, and that the court would allow it anyway. Also, some crimes just simply
can't be solve due to lack of evidence. Nonetheless, wrongful convictions must have been reduced over the
years, due to the application of advanced technologies. Improved investigative procedure and a thorough
collection of evidence, as well as the use of DNA testing in prosecuting the accused, must have greatly reduced
these conviction errors.
  The truth is, there are continual challenges to how we can make a legal system fair and those challenges are
magnified under an adversarial approach. The theoretical “canceling out” of bias can only occur if both
adversaries have equal capabilities; we know for a fact that this is most often not the case. Still, that doesn’t
mean we can’t or shouldn’t work to reduce the disparities that exist. On the contrary, it’s more than doable
and certainly worthwhile. What it requires is a balancing act of funding; of providing cities, towns and villages
with money for a dedicated public defense firm and determining how to divvy up money between prosecutor
and public defender.

The beauty is that there is hope. The system is not broken it just needs some improvement. And that, I think,
is more than achievable if we just make it a priority.

 So you’re finding a perfect justice system? If that’s your argument to avoid the death penalty, just try to wait for
a pig to fly. The only perfect justice we know is a Divine justice. In addition, there’s a lot of several trials before
they execute the death penalty. Example, if the convicted person is found guilty for heinous crime in the first
trial then he’ll wait for another trial to gather more information and more evidences of the case.

If another trial came and he’s found guilty again for the crime, wait for another trial and investigate the case
again. And if he’s totally found guilty, then execute the punishment: death penalty. The process can always
improve. Using the excuse of an imperfect justice system to not have death penalty for heinous crimes and
adding those plunder and corrupt rich people is an invalid argument since people are imperfect. Therefore,
human justice system will always be imperfect.
(INJUSTICE SYSTEM OF THE PHILIPPINES)

VIOLATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS & INHUMAN/CRUEL PUNISHMENT:

 According to the 10 commandments, you shall not kill. It states that killing is considered a gravely sinful act.
Then why would you keep someone who violated the commandment? Human rights should not always be
prioritize because they tend to abuse it. Human lives is more significant than human rights. Wether they kill
while they are incapacitated or intoxicated,or even they accidentally killed someone, it is considered a crime
and punishable by law. Example if person unintentionally killed someone, without the intention of killing that
person because he is intoxicated, he will be convicted as homicide and is sentenced to 12-20 years. Roughly
40% ACCORDING TO STATISTICS convicted murderers were under the influence of alcohol when they took
someone else’s life. Alcohol also increases carelessness and distraction, leading to negligent homicide.

 Death penalty is not considered murder since it’s a legal punishment mandated by the government to those
who are proven guilty.

 Kung sasabihin namang wala tayong pinagkaiba sa mga kriminal na yun kung papatayin natin sila:
The government doesn’t operate based on candies and rainbows. Being unnecessarily kind doesn’t make the
world a better place but it makes the people who can do bad things to have the freedom to be complacement
on doing what they want to do. (INHUMAN/CRUEL PUNISHMENT)
DEATH PENALTY FOR ANTI-POOR

 If you are worrying about the innocent ones getting convicted. It is not bad as it seems. Only 4.1% of people
currently on death row are likely to be innocent according to the National Academy of Sciences.
Death penalty doesn’t punish the convicted person right away like what we said. It is a long process where in the
supreme court will study and reinvestigate the case. If they found out that the case was manipulated, the evidences
were tampered and destroyed, and the documents where forged, the assigned prosecutor and attorney will be
punished.Those who commit forgery are often charged with the crime of fraud. Falsification of such documents is
already punishable under Article 174 of the Revised Penal Code, while those witnesses who lied in the court while
under the oath will be charged of perjury.
In addition, Lawyers are known to be the servant of the law and they are expected to administer justice in fair and
efficient ways. As they uphold the constitution, lawyers must set an example by obeying laws and promoting
respect for law and legal processes. They should adhere to the Code of Professional Responsibility. SO disobeying
these rules they should follow will suffer from the punishment.

 You can't say that the death penalty is anti-poor because whether you are rich or poor, the case will be
reviewed by the supreme court. And for those who cannot afford a lawyer, the government will provide public
attorneys ready to defend our citizens. The problem here is that, we think that when the death penalty is
legalized, we will automatically assume that the government can kill anyone who is committing a crime, but we
have to remember that when we re-impose the death penalty, it will still go under the lawmakers. And it takes
a long long process to actually punish the convicted.

 Death Penalty is a long process. Like we said, the supreme court will investigate the case thoroughly before
applying the punishment to the convicted criminal. It takes years to actually punish the convicted. (DEATH
PENALTY FOR ANTI POOR)
DRUGS USE
 Philippine House Bill No. 7814 provides the death penalty for a new crime under the 2002 Comprehensive
Dangerous Drugs Act.

 In 2021, there were about 41.5 thousand reported cases involving illegal drugs in the Philippines, majority of
which were reported by the National Capital Region's (NCR) regional police office. Reported cases of illegal
drugs in the region reached around 12.4 thousand.

 Around 1.67 million or two out of one hundred Filipinos aged 10 to 69 are current users of drugs, according
to the results of the 2019 National Household Survey on the Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse, released by
the Dangerous Drugs Board.

 And most of the criminals who commit heinous crimes are under the influence of drugs.
(CRIMINALS WHO USE DRUGS AND COMMIT HEINOUS CRIMES)

LIFE IMPRISONMENT VS DEATH PENALTY

  An execution is better and cost less than life imprisonment because they will be given the expenses of food,
health care and other costs that will sustain their lives.

 In that sense, rather than spending money to recruit personnel to monitor these criminals, creating and
maintaining the buildings that these criminals reside in, and supplying food to keep them sated, it's better to
just kill them off.

 life imprisonment is economically expensive. And we’re spending money on criminals instead of using it for
public to use. Remember that our taxes are the ones that keep the military functioning, as well as the police.
Aside from that, their existence is a risk, so why keep them alive?

 Because of a clogged judicial and court system, overcrowded prisons are the most visible problem plaguing
correctional facilities. According to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology which runs 415 prisons in 17
regions, on average the prisons are at 380% overcapacity.
(LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN PRISONMENT THAN DEATH PENALTY)

SUMMARIZED (PRESENT PPT)

Death penalty or capital punishment requires law enforcement to punish those convicted criminals who commited
heinous crimes such as rape, terrorist bombing, murder, genocide or any form of crime where the victim is getting
killed or murdered. Keeping murder alive can only cause further harm to people. Human rights should not always be
prioritized because they tend to abuse it. And what is important to y’all, human rights or human lives?

-If death penalty is inhuman and cruel enough to abolish it. Let’s take a look at some victims who suffered from
those gruesome and inhuman criminals.
● first Gerald Reparip, who admitted raping and murdering a one year old baby, and the body of the baby was
found inside an abandoned building on Tuesday July 16 2019 in Makati City.
● The Murder Case of Christine Silawan on March 11 2019, she was found dead on the vacant lot in Lapu Lapu
city, with 30 multiple stab wounds and her face was already distorted revealing her skull. Autopsy results say
that her tongue, trachea, esophagus, right ear and parts of her neck are missing. And she was naked from
waist to down
● Next, the Vizconde Massacre happened on June 30 1991. And one of the most high-profile rape and murder
cases in the Philippines when three members of the Vizconde family were brutally murdered in their home in
B.F. Homes, Parañaque. One of the victim, Carmella was raped before she was murdered and had 17 stab
wounds.
● There’s also a man who raped and killed 11-month old baby in San Juan City Metro Manila, the 11-month old
baby was found under a jeepney in San Juan City last August 2014.
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Those are some of the gruesome and worst rape and murder case in the Philippines. So if you are saying death
penalty is inhuman and cruel punishment for criminals, let’s reflect from what the criminals did to their victims, isn’t
this inhuman and horrible enough for you? We have presented our reasons why death penalty must be implemented
again in our country. With the lots of heinous happening in the different parts of the Philippines, it would be better
that capital punishment to return again. Yes, we agree that we must not end a life as per our moral values, but can
you still say that when you were the one to grieve for your love ones? It is not good to kill, but do criminals think that
too? I don’t think so. All they want is to get what they want, even sacrificing lives. We think that we have to look at
the deeper picture of it. It is also our duty to protect lives too – the lives of those people who has been killed
heinously and helplessly. Let’s give the bereaved families some sort of closure. Let’s give them, the victims and their
families, the justice they deserve.
And Like we said there had never been a perfect justice system. No matter how complete and thorough a justice
system is, once in a while, a wrong person is put in prison.
The beauty is that there’s still hope. The system is not broken it just needs some improvement. And that, I think, is
more than achievable if we just make it a priority.
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