Cebu lawyers oppose death penalty after SONA 2020

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The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) Cebu 'strongly opposes' President Duterte's desire to reinstate the death penalty in the Philippines, calling the move 'anti-poor.'

reinstate the death penalty"Although the reimposition of death penalty is intended to deter crimes and save children from the dangers of illegal drugs, NUPL Cebu believes that reviving the law is another anti-poor policy that would selectively target millions of helpless Filipinos, as observed in the ongoing war on drugs of the present administration and the selective enforcement of laws amid the COVID-19 pandemic," NUPL Cebu said in a statement to media.

"NUPL Cebu would rather urge the President to call for the fixing of the justice and law enforcement systems first to assure the fair and impartial investigation and disposition of cases before implementing a legislation that is necessarily cruel and inhuman," their statement reads., a roundtable discussion organized by Rappler about Duterte’s 5th SONA, lawyer King Anthony Perez, NUPL Cebu spokesperson, described the plan to bring back capital punishment as"unspeakably regressive.

Early June, 7 activists in Cebu protesting against the passage of the Anti-Terror Bill – now a law – along with one bystander, were. Cebu City was then under general community quarantine .

 

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