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Cebu teen rape-slay 'not good reason' to revive death penalty: Otso Diretso bets

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Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/03/13/20190313_otso.jpg"/><figcaption>Otso Diretso senatorial bets hold a press conference in Quezon City on March 13, 2019. Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - The brutal rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl in Cebu is &quot;not a good reason&quot; to justify the restoration of death penalty, members of the Otso Diretso senatorial slate said Wednesday.The opposition ticket gave the statement a day after the hashtag #YesToDeathPenalty trended on Twitter as netizens decried the gruesome death of Christine Lee Silawan who was raped and skinned to the skull.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/multimedia/video/03/12/19/dalagita-sa-cebu-pinatay-at-binalatan-ang-mukha">Dalagita sa Cebu, pinatay at binalatan ang mukha</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/12/19/cebu-rape-slay-case-sparks-calls-for-death-penalty-revival">Cebu rape-slay case sparks calls for death penalty revival</a></li></ul>&quot;This is a terrible crime for a student to suffer like this. [But] this is not a good reason to restore the death penalty,&quot; human rights lawyer Chel Diokno told reporters.&quot;Kinamumuhi ko at kinaiiyak ko ang pagbabalat sa babaeng &#x27;yun. Hindi po sana nangyari ito, but that should not bring out the animal in us,&quot; Moro civic leader Samira Gutoc said.(I am angry and moved to tears at what happened to that girl. This shouldn&#x27;t have happened, but that should not bring out the animal in us.) Knee-jerk reactions triggered by reports about heinous crimes should not be the basis of the reimposition of capital punishment, said former solicitor general Florin Hilbay said.&quot;Ang nakakatakot minsan ay nagagamit &#x27;yung emotional response ng mga mamamayan para gumawa ng isang emotional policy response,&quot; he said.(What&#x27;s scary is sometimes we use our emotional response to make an emotional policy response.)&quot;Ang death penalty ay short, emotional response sa nakikita. Sana &#x27;yung response natin is more rational like a reform of our justice system,&quot; he said.(Death penalty is a short, emotional response. Our response should be more rational like a reform of our justice system.)Bringing back the death penalty at this time would only result in &quot;many wrongful convictions,&quot; said Diokno, whose main platform is judicial reform.&quot;Mismong Korte Suprema ang nagsabi na 70 percent ng nabigyan ng death sentence ay mali pala. Kung ibabalik natin ang death penalty, marami diyan wrongful conviction,&quot; he said.(The Supreme Court already said that 70 percent of those sentenced to death were wrongfully convicted. If we will bring back the death penalty, there will be more wrongful convictions.)&quot;Hindi pagpataw ng death penalty ang magpapatigil sa krimen (Imposing the death penalty will not deter crime). The certainty of punishment is what will stop criminals,&quot; Diokno said.The restoration of the death penalty was among President Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s campaign promises in 2016.Last month, the House of Representatives withdrew its approval of a bill that imposes capital punishment against those convicted of drug offenses, months after Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo nabbed the speakership from Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez.Arroyo abolished the death penalty in 2006 under her presidency.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/06/19/house-withdraws-bill-setting-death-penalty-for-drug-offenses">House withdraws bill setting death penalty for drug offenses</a></li></ul>

The brutal rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl in Cebu is "not a good reason" to justify the restoration of death penalty, members of the Otso Diretso senatorial slate said Wednesday.

The brutal rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl in Cebu is "not a good reason" to justify the restoration of death penalty, members of the Otso Diretso senatorial slate said Wednesday.

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Cebu teen rape-slay 'not good reason' to revive death penalty: Otso Diretso bets

Katrina Domingo,

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Published March 13, 2019 02:00 PM PHT

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