Incoming PH president defends death penalty as retribution

President-elect Rodrigo Duterte blasted critics of the death penalty, saying its detractors only see one side of the issue. These critics, he said, see the death penalty as a futile deterrence mechanism because crime rates continue to rise even in places that impose it. He called it a “fractured statement.” The school of thought he subscribes to is this: the death penalty is not to instill fear or deter crime. “Death penalty to me is the retribution,” he said.

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