The document discusses constitutional guarantees against excessive fines, cruel, degrading, and inhuman punishment under Philippine law. It prohibits imposing death penalty unless authorized by Congress for compelling reasons involving heinous crimes. It outlines arguments for and against death penalty, including whether it is a deterrent or deprives chance of rehabilitation.

2. 1. Excessive fines shall not imposed, nor cruel, degrading, or inhuman punishment
inflected, Neither shall death penalty be imposed , unless, for compelling reasons involving
heinous crime the congress hereafter povides for it. Any death penalty already imposed shall
be reduced to reclusion perpetua.
2. The employment physical, psychological, or degrading punishment against any prisoner or
detainee or use of sub-standard or inadequete penal facilities under subhuman condition shall be
dealt with by the law.
What are Penalties cannot be imposed in
Criminal Case
1. Excessives fines
2. Where the penalty is inhuman and barbarous and shocking t the consinence, e.g., The garrote,
he hack and burning at the stake.
3. Imprisonment for non-payment of debt or poll tax
4. Involuntary servitude except in punishment of crime

3. WHAT ARE THE CONSTITUTIONNAL GUARANTEES AGAINTS
EXCESSIVE FINES, CRUEL,DEGRADING AND INHUMAN PUNISHMENT
1. Fines may be considered excessive when under any circumtance it is disproportionate to the
offense.
2. The penalty must be flagrantly and plainly oppressive, wholly disproportionate to the nature
of the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community.
3. Torture is a cruel punishment because it involves a deliber ate design to increase of the
prisoner.
Punishment are said to be cruel and/or inhuman when they involve torture or lingering death,
such burning alive , mutilation, starvation, drowning and other barbarous punishment
IMPOSITION OF DEATH PENALTY
SECTION 19 explicitly abolished death penalty. The law says, “death penalty shall not be
imposed unless, for compelling reason involving heinous crimes, the congress hereafter provides
for it”. Pursuant to this constitutionnal mandate, the Congress enacted R.A 7659, otherwise
known as the Death Penalty Law, defining heinous crime where death penalty may be
imposed

4. death penalty methods

6. death penalty around the world
• Hanging • Fire Squad

7. • Beheading • Lethal injection

8. • Stoning • Gas Chamber /
Electrocution

9. 1. ARGUMENTS AGAINST DEATH PENALTY LAW
A. Its is cruel, and inhuman
B. It has never been shown to be an effective deterrent against the profileration of criminality
C. It deprives the convict of a chance of rehabilitation and reformation. the idea of the cassical school of
thought
D. There may always be possibility of error in condemning a person to death.
E. The stae has no right to deprive a person of his life; God is the giver of life and only he can take it.
2. ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF DEATH PENALTY
A. It is not cruel and inhuman because the manner by which it is executed (lethal injection) does not
involve physical or metal pain or unnecessary physical o mental suffering, and it is imposed only for
heinous crimes.
B. It does discourage others from commiting heinous crimes

10. C. A convict by his own acts has forfeited his right to life ad shown his moral incapability to be
rehabiliated and reformed.
D. It is impositon filled with numerous legal safeguard
E. The State has the absolute right to take the life of a person who has proved himself a great
menace to society by way of self -defense and as an example and warning to others.