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* Body all about death penalty

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DEATH PENALTY

Exodus 21:23-25 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Death Penalty is a capital punishment. It is used today and was used during ancient times to punish people with a variety of offenses. The bible also advocates death for murder and other crimes. Here in the Philippines, we used to have Death Penalty, but I believe this capital punishment should be issued in all states for those people who commit great crimes. Death Penalty should be issued because death is being feared, for others it gives Justice, and there are some quotations from the bible that seem to respond to this.

The Philippines was the first Asian country that abolished the death penalty in 1987. But six years after it has re-imposed the death penalty, the Philippines has overtaken its Asian neighbors and has the most number of death convicts. Within less than a year, however, the military establishment was lobbying for its reimposition as a means to combat the "intensifying" offensives of the CPP/NPA guerrillas. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, then Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and later elected President of the Philippines in 1992,was among those who were strongly calling for the reintroduction of the death penalty against rebellion, murder and drug trafficking. In mid 1987, a bill to reinstate the death penalty was submitted to Congress. Military pressure wasvery much evident in the preamble which cited the pestering insurgency as well as the recommendations of the police and the military as compelling reasons for the reimposition of the death penalty. The bill cited recent right wing coup attempts as an example of the alarming deterioration of peace and order and argued for the death penalty both as an effective deterrent against heinous crimes and...