By: Villamor C. Visaya Jr.
(Published on its print edition on August 31 – September 6, 2024)
Reviving the death penalty?It depends on what you believe.
For former President Joseph Estrada, the death penalty will be a deterrent. He cited the gruesome rape-murder of a six-year-old girl in Paco, Manila in the past as a heinous crime, which the assailants must pay with a death sentence.
For the anti-death House congress peoples, the death penalty is not the answer to the rising crime cases in the country. Imposing death will not stop criminality.
Going locally, Tuguegarao City’s newest “moniker” would have been the killing-and-robbery-capital in the region as the police chief has apparently and miserably failed to stop criminal activities.
Shooting here and there are still unsolved except for some cases. A father killed his daughter. Many more.
Even the regional police officers have called the attention of the police chiefs on these strings of crimes.
For us, the answer must still be the continuous visibility of police forces. Law enforcers must be beefed up especially in crime-prone barangays.
Death penalty is not really the answer to these maladies.#
