LIVE: House votes on death penalty bill on 2nd reading

The House justice panel approved the measure seeking to reinstate the death penalty for heinous crimes in the Philippines. Will it pass both houses?

Published 5:10 PM, March 01, 2017

Updated 6:13 PM, March 01, 2017

MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives votes on the second reading approval for the death penalty bill Wednesday, March 1.

If the bill is passed into law, the following heinous crimes would be punishable by death, either by hanging, firing squad, or lethal injection:

Treason
Qualified piracy
Qualified bribery
Parricide
Murder
Infanticide
Rape
Kidnapping and serious illegal detention
Robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons
Destructive arson
Plunder
Importation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals
Sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution, and transportation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals
Maintenance of a drug den, dive, or resort
Manufacture of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals
Possession of dangerous drugs
Cultivation or culture of plants classified as dangerous drugs or are sources thereof
Unlawful prescription of dangerous drugs
Criminal liability of a public officer or employee for misappropriation, misapplication, or failure to account for the confiscated, seized and/or surrendered dangerous drugs, plant sources of dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and essential chemicals, instruments/paraphernalia and/or laboratory equipment including the proceeds or properties obtained from the unlawful act committed
Criminal liability for planting evidence concerning illegal drugs
Carnapping – Rappler.com

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