11/08/2020
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DECRIMINALIZE: NOT DEATH PENALTY!
Philippine Cannabis Legal Resource Center (CannaLegal PH) strongly opposes the reinstatement of death penalty, and advises the government to decriminalize cannabis and other drugs instead.
In response to President Rodrigo Duterte's statement on his last State of the Nation Address (SONA), this week the House Committee on Justice began considering proposed bills to reinstate death penalty for drug offenders.
After years of putting people to death, particularly in cases of so-called heinous crimes, including possession and cultivation of ma*****na, the Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006.
If reinstated, under Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 the capital punishment of death shall be imposed on those possessing 500 grams or more of ma*****na, or of 10 grams and more of resin/resin oil. Death shall also be imposed to those who import, sell and cultivate ma*****na, regardless of quantity.
CannaLegal PH strongly opposes death penalty in all circumstances, specifically on drug offenses, because it is discriminatory, inherently cruel and irreversible.
According to the Commission on Human Rights and the Free Legal Assistance Group, it is typically the poorer sector who get the capital punishment. Statistics show that majority of those sentenced to die have incomes below minimum wage and unable to afford the legal services to defend themselves. The country has also a faulty judicial system, taking 5-15 years to have conviction on so called heinous crimes, with 77% of death penalty convictions imposed by lower courts were reversed by the Supreme Court.
The reinstatement of the capital punishment shall also violate the country's obligations under international human rights law. In 2007, the Philippines became one of the few countries in Asia to have signed and ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. Such punitive move is also contrary to the Resolution on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty at the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly in December 2018, on a record-breaking 120 countries voting favorably.
Finally, there has been no scientific evidence showing that the imposition of death penalty is a deterrent to so-called heinous crimes. It is worth noting that even on countries that impose the capital punishment to drug offenses, drug trade still flourishes.
In lieu of reinstating the death penalty, CannaLegal PH strongly advises the Philippine government to decriminalize cannabis and other drugs.
Drug decriminalization would eliminate punitive and criminal penalties for: drug use and possession; possession of equipment to introduce drugs into human body, like syringes; and low-level drug sales.
Leading medical, public health, and human rights groups have endorsed drug decriminalization, including the United Nations, World Health Organization and the Human Rights Watch.
Decriminalizing ma*****na and other drugs would: save public funds by reducing jail costs and population size; free up resources allocated to drug enforcement to fund medical services for people who use drugs; and prioritize health and safety over punishment for people who use drugs.
In sum, CannaLegal PH calls on all other cannabis and drug policy reform advocates to ask the Duterte administration to:
1. Not reinstate the death penalty in all circumstances;
2. Decriminalize use, possession and low-level sale of cannabis and other drugs;
3. End the War on Drugs.
