Pro to Death Penalty

"What can congress do to at least minimize or deter the commission of such crimes? Should we restore the death penalty to deter these crimes? Let the debates begin on this. And let the experience of other countries guide us in our decision. I sincerely believe that when the death penalty was in place and the execution of the hardened and god-less criminals by lethal injection gets full media coverage, the commission of heinous crimes decreased," Zubiri argued further citing gruesome news reports on the alarming rise of criminal acts involving kidnapping, robbery, murder and drug-related activities.

"With all these heinous crimes happening, we can only ask why these crimes continue? Why have the perpetrators of these crimes become embolden? It seems that they are not afraid anymore of our laws and our enforcers. To them being caught is simply free board and lodging in our jails. It's not a big deal for them.

They are now emboldened to establish their drug factories in the Philippines, because if they are arrested and convicted, they only suffer life imprisonment as compared to the penalties that they may suffer in other countries which, in some cases like in China, is death,” the Rodriguezes said.

“There is a need to amend our laws to ensure that foreign nationals caught violating our laws on drugs will also be convicted with the harshest penalties that their national law imposes. The inevitability of a mistake should not serve as grounds to eliminate the death penalty any more than the risk of having a fatal wreck should make automobiles illegal

We need not be rash in subjecting our fellow man to punishment outside of reason, but we also must acknowledge that our neighbors and our neighbors’ children deserve the same protection from repeat offenders as the rest; moreover, allowing a proper recourse for dreadful acts ensure that life in America will remain the privileged, protected existence that we have come to not only depend on, but also that we have come...