FORMER deputy speaker and Buhay party-list chairman Jose "Lito" Atienza Jr. said that the death penalty will never be a deterrent to crime, adding that reforming the justice system is a better strategy to fight criminality

"We need a more efficient criminal justice system, where the fiscal is rendering correct opinions on cases filed before them, the judges should likewise behave in that manner, and all the way up to the Supreme Court," Atienza said on Wednesday.

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