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It seems that the criminals in the Philippines become bolder because they even attacks at day light. Remember Martilyo Gang who operated many times in the mall? The bank robbers are also very daring, they don’t have a fear anymore. What they do is they just shot the costumers first before they rob the bank. Drug trafficking is also a major problem in our country. Because of drugs the future of our youth has been destroyed. It seems they drug dealers has no fear to operate in the Philippines because they knew that the law here is not strict compared to other countries.
The rapists
are also roaming anywhere; they are just looking for a timing to do their evil
plan. Recently, a 1-year old daughter of street dwellers was kidnapped in San
Juan and it was allegedly raped and killed by a drug addict. The authorities
already had pushed a man-hunt operation against the perpetrator; but they don’t
already get him. Then, a 26 years old woman named Anrea Galang Espiritu was
also raped and his cadaver was thrown in the river somewhere in Bulacan. The authority
has already suspects who did that crime, including the jeepney driver that
Andrea rode when she went in Bulacan. Her family, relatives, friends and the
Filipino people are asking for justice in what he got into the hands of the
criminals.
Because
of these kinds of crimes that happening in our country, some individuals are
requesting to the government that they should bring back the death penalty in
the Philippines. But we knew that it is not easy to do because the Catholic
Church is against to the death penalty. They are the one who lobbied from the
government to stop the death penalty in our country. In their belief, death
penalty is not the solution to lessen the crimes in our country. Beside that
this is also inhumane; for we don’t have a right to take someone’s life, even
the one who committed a heinous crime. Life sentence is an enough punishment
for them.
But for
the some Filipino people, it’s about time to bring back the death penalty in the
Philippines. They believed that if the
government would not listen to their sentiment; heinous crimes would still
prevail in our society. The death penalty is a strong way to put a fear in the
mind of the criminals. Maybe they would think thrice before the conduct their
activities.
In the
end, it is still up to the government if they like to bring back the death
penalty in our country. But before they do this, they should fix our justice
system. We already knew that there’s no equality between the poor and the rich
ones. It’s easy for them to convict the poor; but it’s hard for them to convict
an influential person. They have a power to delay justice or to revoke their
case. If this is still the system, only poor criminals would undergo in lethal
injection.