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Bicol Saro Partylist Representative Brian Raymund Yamsuan has proposed that law enforcers and other persons in authority involved in covering up evidence in drug trafficking and other heinous crimes be slapped with the harsher penalty of up to 20 years in prison instead of the current maximum 12-year jail term. “Law enforcers and other persons […]
Senator Bong Go reiterated his support for the reimposition of the death penalty in cases involving heinous crimes related to illegal drugs. In an ambush interview after personally aiding struggling residents in Sariaya, Quezon, Go emphasized the need to instill fear in criminals and highlighted the devastating impact of drug-related offenses on countless innocent lives […]
Senator Panfilo Lacson withdrew his authorship of the Senate bill seeking to reinstitute the death penalty for heinous crimes. In a letter to Senate Secretary Atty. Myra Villarica, Lacson also requested that his bill, Senate Bill 27, no longer be considered for deliberation by the Senate panels concerned. The veteran legislator recently withdrew his support […]
Senator Dick Gordon has stressed that Senate Bill No. 1055 or the Separate Facility for Heinous Crimes Inmates Act, which was unanimously passed on third and final reading recently, will promote the general welfare and safeguard the basic rights of every prisoner incarcerated in the New Bilibid Prison. Gordon, principal author and sponsor of the […]
“Today, I have a solution.” Senator Bong Go expressed this statement before members of the 18th Congress as he filed his Senate Bill (SB) No. 1003 which seeks to amend the Revised Penal Code, particularly Articles 29, 97, 98 and 99, the same provisions which were amended and rendered unclear by RA 10592. “The Filipino […]
Senator Dick Gordon and Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri have called for the establishment of a separate prison facility for those convicted of heinous crimes to isolate them from other inmates. Gordon and Zubiri said these inmates should be serving their sentence separately to ensure that those convicted of heinous crimes shall be kept […]