Anti Death Penalty In The Philippines Essay

execution and moreso the lack of remedy for such severe effects and implications on the victim and the victim’s family. From these, what could mainly be derived from the article is the fact that wrongful convictions and wrongful executions still exist, and that this is due to multiple factors in which the justice system is highly part of. In fact, in a recent study conducted by National Academy of Sciences, approximately 4.1% of individuals sentenced to death are actually potentially innocent. Disappointingly, as backed by Richard C. Dieter, death penalty is inclined to be political for the legislators, prosecutors, and judges thus further reducing the chance of the defendant to actually prove his innocence. He also stated that as the range and reach of capital punishment expands, the

On the economic context of the Philippines

(Supporting text: Jolie McLaughin’s The Price of Justice: Interest-Convergence, Cost, and the Anti-Death Penalty Movement)

Within the past decade, there has been less concentration on moral arguments against capital punishments and more emphasis on the economic rationales and inefficiencies of the practice. An on-going debate regarding the allocation and usage of the national fund is circulating in the Philippines through social media. Filipinos debate whether the state must incur costs for the rehabilitation of the criminal or that the budget supposedly allotted for such must instead be used on other projects. Looking into Jolie McLaughin’s article “The Price of Justice: Interest-Convergence, Cost, and the Anti-Death Penalty Movement”, he explains how economic consequences of capital punishment allowed the anti-death penalty advocates and state lawmakers' interests to be aligned with each other and eventually led to the abolishment of the practice in various states in United States. As such, several states have recognized the importance of high costs of capital punishment that served as an important factor in its total