Death to capital punishment

THE recent withdrawal of support by Senators Panfilo Lacson and Emmanuel Pacquiao for the reimposition of the death penalty further dooms the revival of capital punishment in the 18th Congress.

In abandoning his Senate Bill 27 seeking to restore death penalty for heinous crimes, Lacson said it is "better to spare the life of a criminal than to wrongly execute an innocent person." For his part, Pacquiao stated that the "country's judicial system should first be fixed" before considering the restoration of the death penalty.