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| Subject: Rights violation: Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to urge Congress to re-introduce public hangings for drug "crimes" Mon May 16, 2016 5:07 am | |
| Criminals could be hanged in public in the Philippines within months.
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to re-introduce the death penalty for a range of crimes including drugs, rape, murder and robbery.
In his first press conference since winning election in landslide on May 9 Duterte declared he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping a spine with a noose was more humane.
Public hanging would cause widespread outrage in the majority Catholic nation where the death penalty was abolished in 2006 under then president Gloria Arroyo.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/80036847/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-to-urge-congress-to-introduce-public-hangings |
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