Rationale

Death Penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a government-

sanctioned practice wherein a person is killed by the stae as a punishment for a
crime. It is a very common sign of warning for those people who commit crime
here in Philippines and it gives a lot of fear for those people who are trying to
commit crime, death penalty is a long and brutal one. From the stoning and
crucifixion killings of the B.C. era to today’s methods of the electric chair and
lethal injection, governments of one kind or another have sentenced people to
death for thousands of years.
Capital punishment was legal under the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. And
when the fall of Marcos came to place, there was a moratorium on capital
punishment from 1987 to 1999, followed by a resumption in executions from
1999 to 2006, and followed- in turn-by a law ending the practice.
Government leaders, specifically, Davao councilors were asked on their
views on death penaly. Both First district councilor Bernard Al-ag and Indigenous
People’ representative Bai Halila Sudagar support the bill (Condeza, 2017) with
regards to the restoration of capital punishment that underlines the Duterte
Administration’s goal to reduce illigal drug-related criminality. However, Patel
(2017) has its different view towards deagth penalty. He stated that the idea of of
death epnalty in the countryis imply wrong. The resumption of execution will not
get rid the Philippine’s problem, that it is inhumane, and is never the position.
In addition to the source and for those families who experience Death
penalty it is a big issue and a big deal not only here in Philippines but also in
other country, on how people are trying to avoid these kind of execution, people
including the Criminologist student are also studying about these kind of issue
and also as a criminologist student we are trying to attemp to cope up with the
reasons why death penalty is occuring here in our country. As of now President
Duterte is still pushing reinstatement of the death penalty since he was a 2016
presidential candidate. He had called for capital punishment also in his second
SONA in 2017.
Before he made his call, he highlighted how illegal drugs kept by terrorists
in Marawi had led to military action on May 23, 2017, that developed into a 5-
month siege between state forces and extremists. The reimposition of the death
penalty was the first priority legislative measure he mentioned in his 4th State of
the Nation Address (SONA) before a joint session of Congress.
The first death penalty that happens here in Philippines occur in July 11,
1960 -February 5 1999 was Leo Echegaray first Filipino to be meted the death
penalty after its reinstatement in the Philippines in 1993, some 23 years after the
last judicial execution was carried out.
As a Criminologist Student, the significant of this study is to know the
perspective of the Criminology student on what crimes should be considered with
regards to Death Penalty. This study somehow shows how criminology student
see the importance of death penalty in our society. There is always the possibility
of convicting the wrong person, with or without the death penalty, but it is beyond
human ability to ever control it. The unavoidability of a mistake should not serve
as grounds to completely do away with the death penalty any more than the risk
of having a deadly accident should make vehicles illegal.
This study is delimited only to the public opinion of the Criminology
students of the University of Mindanao. This will also address the moral and
ethical element of the issue here if we have the right to take a human life
considering that Catholics believe in the Ten Commandments, one of which is,
“Though Shall Not Kill”. Criminology students are used as the sample of this
study to gather significant information because of their wide range of knowledge
towards crimes, and as a future law enforcer, they are and can be more aware to
the sorroundings and background of the Death Penalty.
Statement of the Problem
1. What is the public opinion of Criminology Students of the University of
Mindanao regarding the resumption of Death Penalty in the Philippines?
2. How do Death Penalty affect the Family of the Violators of Law?
3. Is Death Penalty inhumane taken into perspective that Philippines is one of the
religious country?
4. As a criminology student, what are the crimes that should be of part to
considered it punishable by Death Penalty?
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