DEATH PENALTY, NOT EFFECTIVE DETERRENT

The President wants to restore the death penalty to strike fear in the hearts of criminals. It fails to consider that crime has socio-economic causes like poverty and injustice. Ang taong nagigipit kahit sa patalim kakapit. People who are victims of injustice and cannot get justice from our legal system, will take the law into their own hands. It likewise fails to consider that what is lacking and what we need is a strict and consistent enforcement of the law through our justice system. This is what will effectively deter crimes and not any killing or death penalty.
What is needed is a strict and consistent enforcement of the law, so that people will know that when they commit a crime, there is certainty of punishment and there will be no escape from the long arm of the law.