Monday November 19, 2012 - Duterte said those delinquents who deserve death penalty have a debt to pay to society. He said that even though such punishment will not deter some people from committing a crime, at least they will be punished for their unlawful actions.
Duterte added that even though death penalty was abolished, some relatives of the victims of heinous crimes that deserve such punishment often resort to vengeance, which is not good.
"So kanang mga bleeding hearts or humanist dira, pareha ra na. Imo na silang kuryentehan or tadtaron, parehos ra nang pataya (to the bleeding hearts and humanists, it’s the same death. Whether you electrocute them or chop them, they’re still dead)," Duterte said.
"Ayaw mi tagai anang drama ninyo na it's a cruel and unusual punishment kay tanan pamaagi na patyon nimo ang usa ka tao cruel and unusual jud na. Kining mga human rights, sunod-sunod mo anang mga European na against death penalty (Don’t talk to me about how execution methods are cruel and unusual punishments because all ways of killing a person is cruel and unusual. These human rights advocates are merely copycats of Europeans who are against death penalty)," he added.
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Rodrigo Duterte on being a terror to
evildoers
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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.
INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36297583
Philippines:
Duterte vows to bring back death penalty
16 May 2016
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Rodrigo Duterte on Anti Drugs campaign
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Philippine President-elect Rodrigo
Duterte said he will seek to return the death penalty, in his first comments to
reporters since last week's election.
He added that he would also seek to
give security forces shoot-to-kill powers for suspects who evade arrest and
those involved in organised crime.
It is unclear how easily he could
enact such proposals, but analysts credit his success to his tough stance on
crime.
He is set to be sworn into office on
30 June for a term of six years.
While official election results have
not yet been announced, Mr Duterte has an unassailable lead. He will need the
backing of Congress to see through his plans.
Speaking at a press conference on
Sunday in the southern city of Davao, Mr Duterte is also quoted as saying that
he wanted to forge closer relations with China, and that he was open to direct
talks over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The Philippines has taken one of its
claims to a court of arbitration at the Hague.
Controversial
record
Mr Duterte's record as the
crime-crushing mayor of the southern city of Davao, once notorious for its
lawlessness, has earned him the moniker The Punisher.
"What I will do is urge
Congress to restore death penalty by hanging," Mr Duterte told reporters. The
Philippines abolished capital punishment in 2006.
Duterte: From
'Punisher' to president
- Born in 1945 into a political family but with a more modest background than many Philippine politicians
- Married twice but now single, he says he has several girlfriends
- A lawyer, he became vice-mayor of Davao in 1986 and mayor in 1988. He has also previously held a seat in congress
- Built a reputation fighting crime, militancy and corruption. He has promised to continue his tough stance as president, but has offered few specific policies
- Well known for incendiary comments, such as saying he would kill thousands of criminals without trial
"If you resist, show
violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to shoot to kill. Shoot to
kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised
crime,"
he is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
Rights groups say hundreds of criminals
were killed by so-called "death squads" in Davao during Mr Duterte's
stewardship of the city. In 2015, Human Rights Watch described
Mr Duterte as the "death squad mayor" for his strong-arm tactics
in Davao.
Whether Mr Duterte is able to persuade
Congress to back such policies remains to be seen.
Last week his spokesman put forward a
series of proposals such as a ban on alcohol in public places and a "nationwide
curfew" for children.
Mr Duterte was not afraid of courting
controversy throughout his election campaign. He vowed to give himself and
members of the security forces immunity from prosecution after leaving office,
saying: "Pardon given to Rodrigo Duterte for the crime of multiple murder,
signed Rodrigo Duterte."
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Duterte in
quotes
On vowing
to kill criminals
"Forget the laws on human
rights... You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out.
Because I'd kill you. I'll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the
fish there."
On the
rape of a female missionary
"I saw her face and I
thought, son of a bitch. what a pity... I was mad she was raped but she was so
beautiful. I thought, the mayor should have been first."
On the
Pope's visit holding up traffic
"We were affected by the
traffic. It took us five hours... I wanted to call him: 'Pope, son of a whore,
go home. Do not visit us again'."
On taking
Viagra
"I was separated from my
wife. I'm not impotent. What am I supposed to do? Let this hang forever? When I
take Viagra, it stands up."
Why hanging and not lethal injection which some would describe as more humane? Rodrigo Duterte says hanging will instill fear among criminals. He adds, it's virtually painless.
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Rodrigo Duterte on assassination
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/05/duterte-philippines/482871/
A Promise to
Bring Back Capital Punishment in the Philippines
In his first news conference since
winning the presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte said he’d bring back the
death penalty.
May 16, 2016
Rodrigo Duterte, in his first news
conference as Philippines’ president-elect, vowed to give police the power to
“shoot-to-kill criminals” and bring back the death penalty.
Duterte, the longtime mayor of Davao,
handily won this month’s election on a law-and-order platform. He assumes
office at the end of next month.
The Guardian reported that some of his
other promises were:
Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night.If children were picked up on the streets, their parents would be arrested and thrown into jail for “abandonment”, he said.Duterte said he wanted capital punishment – which was abolished in 2006 under then-president Gloria Arroyo – to be reintroduced for a wide range of crimes, particularly drugs, but also rape, murder and robbery.He added he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping the spine with a noose was more humane.
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Rodrigo Duterte on hanging.
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Duterte is controversial both inside
and out of the Philippines. He spent more than two decades as Davao’s mayor,
where he was accused of running death squads. His defenders called
them volunteer “peacekeepers,” who cleaned up the city.
In his campaign for presidency,
Duterte made jokes about
gang rape, and said he planned to fill Manila Bay with the bodies of so
many criminals that fish
would grow fat from eating their flesh.
To would-be lawbreakers, Duterte’s
warning on Monday:
Do not destroy my country because I will kill you. I will kill you. No middle ground. As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest... and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: Kill them.
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