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Philippinen. Death Penalty Danger in the Philippines - Reinstating Capital Punishment Risks International Condemnation, Sanctions.
Philippinen. Death Penalty Danger in the Philippines - Reinstating Capital Punishment Risks International Condemnation, Sanctions.
The plummeting human rights situation in the Philippines got even worse this week as the government began considering bills to reinstate the death penalty. The move by the House Committee on Justice came a week after President Rodrigo Duterte used his State of the Nation Address to call for capital punishment by lethal injection for drug offenders.
(Human Rights Watch, USA, 05.08.2020)