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    The document prohibits the imposition of the death penalty in the Philippines. It repeals laws that imposed the death penalty and replaces it with reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment depending on the law violated. It also details rules for parole eligibility and commutation or pardon consideration for those sentenced under the new law.

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    The document prohibits the imposition of the death penalty in the Philippines. It repeals laws that imposed the death penalty and replaces it with reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment depending on the law violated. It also details rules for parole eligibility and commutation or pardon consideration for those sentenced under the new law.

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    Anti-Death Penalty Law

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    The document prohibits the imposition of the death penalty in the Philippines. It repeals laws that imposed the death penalty and replaces it with reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment depending on the law violated. It also details rules for parole eligibility and commutation or pardon consideration for those sentenced under the new law.

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    June 24, 2006

    REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9346

    AN ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPOSITION OF DEATH PENALTY IN THE PHILIPPINES

    SECTION 1. The imposition of the penalty of death is hereby prohibited.


    Accordingly, Republic Act No. Eight Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Seven (R.A. No.
    8177), otherwise known as the Act Designating Death by Lethal Injection is hereby
    repealed, Republic Act No. Seven Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Nine (R.A. No. 7659),
    otherwise known as the Death Penalty Law, and all other laws, executive orders and
    decrees, insofar as they impose the death penalty are hereby repealed or amended
    accordingly.
    SECTION 2. In lieu of the death penalty, the following shall be imposed:
    (a) the penalty of reclusion perpetua, when the law violated makes use
    of the nomenclature of the penalties of the Revised Penal Code; or
    (b) the penalty of life imprisonment, when the law violated does not
    make use of the nomenclature of the penalties of the Revised Penal
    Code.
    SECTION 3. Persons convicted of offenses punished with reclusion perpetua,
    or whose sentences will be reduced to reclusion perpetua, by reason of this Act, shall
    not be eligible for parole under Act No. 4103, otherwise known as the Indeterminate
    Sentence Law, as amended.
    SECTION 4. The Board of Pardons and Parole shall cause the publication at
    least once a week fo three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation of
    the names of persons convicted of offenses punished with reclusion perpetua or life
    imprisonment by reason of this Act who are being considered or recommended for
    commutation or pardon: Provided, however; That nothing herein shall limit the power of
    the President to grant executive clemency under Section 19, Article VII of the
    Constitution.
    SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect immediately after its publication in two
    national newspapers of general circulation.
    Approved: June 24, 2006
    Published in The Manila Times on June 29, 2006.

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