The document discusses capital punishment, also known as the death penalty. It provides pros and cons of the death penalty, details the history of laws around capital punishment in the Philippines, and describes common methods of execution, including hanging, lethal injection, beheading, electrocution, shooting, stoning, and lethal injection. The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006 but some politicians have proposed re-imposing it for drug-related crimes.

1. AHNELYN JANE Q. JAVIER

2. “Capital punishment, also called death penalty, execution of
an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court
of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment should be
distinguished from extrajudicial executions carried out
without due process of law.”

3. PROS CONS
• It deters criminals from commiting
serious crime.
• It is quick, painless and humane.
• The legal system constantly evolves to
maximize justice.
• It appease the victims or victims’
families.
• Without the death penalty, some
criminals would continue to commit
crimes.
• It is a cost-effective solution.
• Retribution is not the same as
revenge.
• There is no credible proof that the death penalty
works as a deterrent.
• It is cruel and unusual punishment.
• It continues the cycle of violence
• It affects the poorer segments of society and
racial minorities disproportionately .
• It is an old-fashioned amd ignorant solution.
• The justice system is bound to make mistakes.
• The death penalty is not cost-effective.
• A life spent in prison is a worse punishment than
an execution.
• There are strong religious arguments against the
death penalty.

4. LAW ON THE DEATH PENALTY
• Republic Act No. Seven Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Nine (R.A. No.
7659), otherwise known as the Death Penalty Law, and all other laws,
executive orders and decrees, insofar as they impose the death
penalty are hereby repealed or amended accordingly
• 1987- Constitution provides for the abolition of death penalty, except
for heinous crimes to be determined by Congress. Congress passed a
law imposing death penalty on heinous crimes (52 crimes) and
started executing death convicts in 1999.
• In 2006, the Philippines abolished the death penalty through a law
passed by Congress;commuted sentence of 1,230 death row inmates
to life imprisonment.
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5. • In December 2014, the Philippineswas accepted into
the EU’s GSP+ status with the abolition of the death
penalty and signing of the Rome Statue cited as
compliance.
• In 2007, the Philippines acceded to and ratified the Second
Optional Protocol on the International Convention on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR)
• In February 2017, the House of Representatives passed a
bill re-imposing the death penalty for drug-related crimes,
the bill is in the Senate and has not been tabled for
deliberation.

6. COMMON METHODS IN DEATH PENALTHY
• Hanging -execution or murder by strangling or breaking
the neck by a suspended noose. The traditional method of
execution involves suspending victims from a gallows or
crossbeam until they have died of asphyxiation
• Lethal injection- practice of injecting one or more drugs into a
person for the express purpose of causing rapid death. The
main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but
the term may also be applied in a broader sense to include
euthanasia and other forms of suicide.

7. • Beheading, a mode of executing capital punishment by
which the head is severed from the body. The ancient
Greeks and Romans regarded it as a most honourable form
of death.
• Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric chair, is a
method of execution originating (and almost exclusively employed)
in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a
specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes
fastened on the head and leg.

8. • Execution by shooting is a method of capital
punishment in which a person is shot to
death by one or more firearms.
• Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment
where a group throws stones at a person until the subject
dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of
punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times.

9. • The first execution by lethal injection
took place under Joseph Ejercito
Estrada in 2001.

10. • Succesor of Estrada, Gloria Macapagal
Artoyo, was a vocal opponent and also
approved a moratorium, but later
permitted executions and denied
pardons.

11. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night, already devoid
of stars”
-Martin Luther King Jr.