The bill looking to re-implement the death penalty on drug-related offenses has been affirmed on third and last reading at the House of Representatives. The lower house in a session on Tuesday passed House Bill 4727—217 yes, 54 no and one abstention—trying to re-implement the death penalty for appalling drug-related offenses.
The bill was approved on the final reading only a couple days after its second reading approval last Wednesday.
The ball is presently in the hands of the Senate, where the considerations over the bill confront a gridlock over examinations on the nation's settlement commitments to cancel death penalty.
Opposing legislators had said they would scrutinize the bill once it is marked into law under the steady gaze of the Supreme Court for damaging the three-day notice administer in the 1987 Constitution.
“It is not seasonable as it violates the three-day notice rule prescribed by Section 26(2) of Article VI of the Constitution,” Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman earlier said in a press conference.
The said section in the Constitution states that “No bill passed by either House shall become a law unless it has passed three readings on separate days and printed copies thereof in its final form had been distributed to its Members three days before its passage, except when the President certifies to the necessity of its immediate enactment.”
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