Reaction Paper month of January

Aquino to study possible reimposition of death penalty

President Benigno S. Aquino III on Wednesday said he will study the re-imposition of maximum penalty of death in the wake of calls from various groups following several heinous crime cases recently

In an interview at the 65th Founding Anniversary of the Liberal Party at Club Filipino in San Juan City, the President expressed concern over the reimplementation of the capital punishment, saying that in the present judicial system, suspects who do not have the ability to secure the services of competent lawyers are prone to be wrongly convicted.

The Chief Executive said that death penalty can only be fully applied in a perfectly-existing judicial system.

Capital punishment in the Philippines was abolished on June 24, 2006, the second time since 1987.

Since it was reintroduced in 1993, seven people have been executed. Abolition of the death penalty has generally occurred in correlation with increasing democratization in nation-states around the world.

(http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/299406/aquino-study-possible-reimposition-death-penalty)

My Reaction:

The President is now studying the re-imposition of the maximum penalty of death. However, according to our president he is not so in-favor of bringing back the penalty. The current system in our country is not perfect therefore, there is a chance that an innocent will be given this penalty. Our vice-president is in-favor of implementing again the penalty so that the crime will drop.

If the maximum penalty of death is the answer to lessen our crime rate then it should be implemented again. By lessening our crime rate the ban of other country to us will therefore be diminish. Due to the less crime, investors and business firms will be attracted to our country. There will be a new job opening due to the investments. The economy of our country will rise and its security measures will improve as well.

Nevertheless, our country today is almost as if religious side is over control. They are the one who always block these good movement and some human rights that make this penalty quite unpopular to them. As I thought that there is always a division between the state and the church so they must follow to whatever our government is doing.

The implementation of maximum penalty of death will give us good benefits. However, our president has a good point that there will be an innocent victim will be accused and the process of it cannot be undo.

So whether it is good our bad to implement back the penalty there will always be final decision to make. As for me, I am hopping that this penalty will be passed again.