Report On Death Penalty RA 7659
Report On Death Penalty RA 7659
Report On Death Penalty RA 7659
imposable penalty upon such offenders by at least one degree than that prescribed
for the crime. (Sec. 22)
2. In the matter of executing the death penalty, Article 81 has been amended and, thus,
directs that the manner of putting the convict to death by electrocution shall be
changed to gas poisoning as soon as the facilities are provided, and the sentence
shall be carried out not later than one year after the finality of judgment. (Sec. 24)
3. The original provision of Article 83 about the suspension of the execution of the death
penalty for three years if the convict was a woman, has been deleted and instead,
limits such suspension to last while the woman was pregnant and within one year after
delivery. (Sec. 25)
The 1987 Constitution suspended the death penalty. Guided by the Constitution the
state did not execute anyone on death row during the term of President Cory Aquino.
But, in the absence of an enabling law to make the Constitutional ban on state
executions, President Fidel Ramos restored the death penalty in 1993.
Senate Bill No. 2080 entitled An Act Imposing Death Penalty in the Philippines
introduced by Senator Vicente C. Sotto III and still pending in the committee.