Karapatan: Reimposing death penalty to institutionalize carnage of the poor

Human rights watchdog Karapatan strongly warned that the proposals to reimpose death penalty for drug-related offenses “would only further institutionalize the already ongoing State-sanctioned carnage of the poor,” as President Rodrigo Duterte pushed for the swift passage of a law reviving capital punishment by lethal injection during his fifth State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 27.

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