On Reimposition of Death Penalty

After continual reports on kidnapping, murder and rape cases, moral and judicial debates opened up among different sectors on the re-institution of death penalty especially after current Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed his want to restore it.

Many believed that death penalty, also called capital punishment, is reasonable enough as punishment for people who committed heinous crimes. After all, justice can only be served if the punishment received by the condemned criminal is fitting to the crime one has done. The penalty is also seen as a way to prevent a criminal from doing another crime because a lifetime imprisonment does not really guarantee the protection the society needs from such dangerous criminals.

Notwithstanding its pros, granted that the Philippine population is composed mostly of Christian communities, a number still suppose that this form of punishment violates the moral laws. Also the Commission on Human Rights stands that the laws of the states should protect the dignity and human rights of every human person.

The thing with death penalty is that it can only eradicate the sinner, but never the sin. We can execute everyone guilty of heinous crimes and someone will still commit another. The should government should focus more on the root causes for crimes and start from there.

It is said that having less in life means having less in law. Certainly, the justice system in the country is never fair for it is biased to the poor people given that money can control the enforcement of the law. Meaning the reimposition of death penalty may cost us more innocent lives more than those that we have lost before.

Only until the justice system is fixed then we can start reconsidering capital punishment./ Loreine Kyra Lebumfacil