As Rodrigo Duterte heads to presidential inauguration on June 30, a pledge to revive death penalty and permitting “shoot-to-kill” to resistant criminals was declared in a recent news briefing. Agence France-Presse reports.
Duterte, 71, told a press conference in Davao on Sunday, “what I will do is urge Congress to restore (the) death penalty by hanging.”
“If you resist, show violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to shoot to kill. Shoot to kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised crime,” he added.
Considering military sharp shooters would be enlisted in his campaign to execute criminals.
Duterte said he wanted capital punishment – which was abolished in 2006 under then-president Gloria Arroy.
He said having the criminals to be handled by firing squad is a “waste of bullets”, that’s why he prefers death by hanging instead. He believed snapping the spine with a noose was more humane.
He even protested on Sunday saying people no longer feared the law, and he would change that.
“We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only,” Duterte said.
“Do not destroy my country because I will kill you. I will kill you. No middle ground. As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest… and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.”
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