A LAWMAKER has filed a bill seeking to bring back capital punishment for heinous crimes and corruption, including plunder, noting the need to return to the "iron-handed" technique of the previous administration.

In her House Bill 10910, Duterte Youth Party-list Rep. Drixie Mae Cardema said that the crimes of plunder, rape, murder, illegal drugs, and other heinous crimes would be subjected to either firing squad for government officials and lethal injection for other criminals.

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