One part of that bill is the mode of execution to the person convicted of a heinous crime.
Under the bill, death penalty may be executed either by hanging, firing squad, or lethal injection.
It also states that the death penalty shall be carried out from one year to one and a half years after the judgment has become final and executory.
Lawmakers want capital punishment for a number of drug offenses.
Under the proposed bill reviving the death penalty, selling, trading, distributing, and transporting of dangerous drugs, regardless of quantity and purity, and manufacturing dangerous drugs may be punishable by death.
Any person who possesses at least 10 grams of any dangerous drugs or 500 grams of marijuana may be punished by death.
Any person — including foreigners — who brings in illegal drugs into the country, regardless of quantity and purity, may also be executed.
Lawmakers also want death for other non-drug related crimes such as kidnapping, and murder.
Any person who kills because of a price or a reward, kills during calamities, or kills with cruelty are also candidates for the execution chamber.
Rape may also be punished by death — but it still depends on how and when it happened.
Even public officials are not spared from the death penalty.
A public officer proven to have committed plunder or amassing ill-gotten wealth amounting to ₱50 million or more may be punished with death.
Qualified bribery or refusing to arrest or prosecute an offender after being given or receiving a gift may also be punishable by death.
