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"Death is the only language these criminals and the big unions understand," says Robert Ace Barbers, chair of the House Hazardous Drugs Committee.
REVIVAL OF PENALTY OF DEATH. House Dangerous Drugs Committee Chair Robert Ace Barbers supports the bill restoring the death penalty for drug convicts. Darren Langit / Rappler photo file
MANILA, Philippines – House Hazardous Drugs Committee Chairman Robert Ace Barbers has urged senators to pass the bill to reinstate the death penalty while continuing to investigate the shabu weighing several deaths. Billion pesos smuggled into the country this year.
The barbers appealed to the Senate on Wednesday, November 28, when his committee and the Good Governance and Public Accountability Working Group continued to review the P11 billion shortage and intercepted P2 shipments, 4 billion shabu.
Congressman of Surigao del Sur 2nd District believes that people continue to commit drug-related crimes because of "lack of enforcement".
"I would therefore like to take this opportunity to appeal to the Senate to pass the death penalty bill that has been approved by this House, which is the only bill that is adapted to Those crimes that continue to happen.Death is the only language used by these criminals big unions understand, "said Barbers.
"What are we waiting for – more deaths and drug-related crimes – a whole nation of drug addicts – a narco state?" He asked.
The House of Representatives approved at third reading a bill reimposing the death penalty for seven drug-related crimes in March 2017.
But in July 2017, the then Senate Speaker, Aquilino Pimentel III, said that the reimposition of the death penalty was not a priority for the chamber.
So far, no action has been taken to revive the death penalty bill under the mandate of current Senate Speaker Vicente Sotto III. – Rappler.com
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