Unit
1012 awards the Rayner
Goddard Act of Courage Award to Rodrigo Duterte for defending the death penalty.
Although, we, the comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, rather that he uses capital
punishment after a fair trial with judicial safeguards, we still respect the
fact that he has the courage to protect his countrymen.
He is also nicknamed, ‘The Strongman of the Philippines’ and he was
sworn in as President on June 30, 2016. Let us present some articles on him
wanting to bring back capital punishment and an article in favor of the death
penalty in St. Kitts
and Nevis.
Rodrigo Duterte on being tough on criminals
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Duterte backs
death penalty to curb heinous crimes
By Catherine
S Valente/Manila Times/Davao City
Saturday، 11
February 2017 10:32 PM
President
Rodrigo Duterte has pushed for the reimposition of death penalty, saying that
heinous crime increased when it was lifted. In his speech during
the Manila Times fifth Business Forum, Duterte insisted that capital
punishment deters crime, as proven by the data presented by the Bureau of
Corrections (BuCor) at the Senate on Tuesday.
“Now that there is no death penalty, an increase of 3,000% (people convicted of heinous crime). And they say it’s not a deterrent?” the president said.
Citing the BuCor report, Duterte said the number of people convicted of heinous crimes after the abolition of the death penalty in 2006 rose by 3,280%.
“BuCor director Benjamin delos Santos said there were 189 inmates convicted of heinous crimes before the capital punishment was abolished in 2006,” Duterte said, reading from his notes.
“After death penalty was revoked, this figure rose to 6,200 inmates, an astonishing 3,280% increase of persons convicted of heinous crimes,” he added.
Duterte said with him as president, he is confident that the enforcement of death penalty, if it is revived, will be more effective.
“They said when the death penalty was there, nothing happened. It’s because I was not the president then,” he said.
“Bring it back while I am president, I’ll turn those
idiots into a curtain on trees. Hang them,” the president added.
Since the presidential campaign, Duterte has declared support for the return of the death penalty. House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez also expressed his support for the revival of death penalty. Early this week, he sacked deputy speakers, including former president Gloria Arroyo, who were opposed to the measure that seeks the revival of capital punishment.
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SOURCE: http://m.gulf-times.com/story/532525/Duterte-backs-death-penalty-to-curb-heinous-crimes
In Support Of
Capital Punishment
By Web Editor -
January 23, 2017
By Michael S. Blake
One Ewin James, writing an opinion piece in this
The Observer newspaper of 13th instant argues pro capital
punishment as a fit, fair and just penalty for those who visit
murder on others of their fellowmen.
I support the proposition.
The unpalatable fact of the matter is that St.
Kitts and Nevis, a classic small-island state with a population hovering around
50,000 souls, and occupying a physical landmass of some 104 sq. miles, averages 25
or so murders per year, and as such, ‘boasts’ a per capita murder rate of approximately
50 per 100,000 persons.
When this statistic is juxtaposed with the figure
for Singapore being 0.5, 20 for Nigeria, for the USA 6, for Jamaica 38,
26 for St Vincent and the Grenadines, and 30 for Antigua , it becomes
frighteningly clear that we have a serious problem with murder in our beloved
Federation.
If one couples the foregoing with the reality that
very few murderers are caught and convicted, and that even fewer are sentenced
to death, it is fair to conclude that the celestially high level of unwarranted
killings will persist, giving rise to a sickening societal acceptance of such
internecine behaviour as ‘normal’, even to be expected, as one’s sensitivity to
and sense of umbrage at these murders become numb and inured over time.
Yet I am convinced that a suffocating anger and a
tide of discontent at these killings run the gamut of social strata, some of it
bred by despair arising from a sense of individual helplessness underpinned by
a real or perceived inability to ‘do something about it’.
But, more importantly, and more germane to this
debate, is the defiant refusal of the powers that be to activate the capital
punishment apparatus that our laws provide as a definitive means of addressing
the vexing issue.
The voice of the people is (still) the voice of
God, and despite its being evident that the significant majority of the
population not only supports but desires the imposition of the death penalty on
those found guilty of murder, those in position to facilitate its application
stubbornly and steadfastly refuse to bend or bow to this voice.
I submit that our society cannot afford to continue
to go easy on those bent on killing their fellowmen, residents and visitors
alike.
I propose that we hang the culprits as a matter of
course.
Let those who claim to be champions of ‘human
rights’ damn o their hearts’ content. For there is ample evidence that an
emphasis on ‘human rights’ has contributed directly to an abundance of
human wrongs.
A ‘life sentence’ for those found guilty, – where such
is (rarely!) imposed, –, almost always translates into the culprit being
housed, fed, entertained and protected by the State, using, of course, funds,
monies, personnel ,and other resources extracted from and provided by peaceful,
law-abiding citizens and residents , including , so very unfairly ! , those
members and relatives of the family of the victim(s) him/herself
(themselves).
The never-ending discussion as to whether capital
punishment deters murders is, to me, pellucidly immaterial to this debate. I do
not for one moment promote the imposition of the death penalty on
murderers premised on a notion that it serves as deterrent.
Indeed, capital punishment may or may not deter,
but clearly, irrefutably, one thing is certain: hanging the murderer ABSOLUTELY DETERS
HIM/HER FORM KILLING AGAIN!
Let
them stew in their own grease (or juice). – Otto Von Bismarck
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1095342]
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Otto Von Bismarck contends that murderers must
stew in their own grease.
The Bible commends that whosoever sheddeth man’s
blood, by man must his blood be shed.
Capital punishment, then, as James contends, is
retributive justice, pure and total.
I am convinced that because the penalty that
murderers exact and suffer for their irreversible crimes is neither swift, severe,
nor sure, the rate of homicides continues apace.
I suggest we return to the gallows as means of
declaring boldly that we are deadly serious about stemming the tide of murders
that already threatens to wreak irreparable damage to our economic and cultural
infrastructure , and to violently upset our social equilibrium.
Hang them high!!
Rodrigo Duterte with the army
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.emirates247.com/news/philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte-tells-obama-to-go-to-hell-2016-10-04-1.641494]
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OTHER LINKS:
PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTES BY RODRIGO
DUTERTE
PRESIDENT
DUTERTE’S FIRST STATE OF NATION ADDRESS (JULY 25, 2016)
THE PUNISHER OF DAVAO IS OUR HERO!
The Punisher of Davao versus ISIS
RODRIGO
DUTERTE VERSUS THE I.C.C
RODRIGO
DUTERTE: SHOOT A DRUG DEALER AND GET A MEDAL
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells Obama to 'go to hell'
[October 4, 2016]
DUTERTE THE
DESTROYER: GAMES MODELED ON THE PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT WAGING WAR ON DRUGS
Pantaleon Alvarez on Church opposition to death
penalty: 'Why protect evil?'
PANTALEON
ALVAREZ ON SHOOT TO KILL POLICY
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