House leaders had called for a voice vote on Wednesday, and advocates of reinstating the death penalty drowned out those opposing the measure.
The death penalty was abolished in 1987, but President Fidel Ramos reinstated it in 1993, citing ?crime control.? President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo suspended capital punishment in 2006.
PhotoMANILA ? The Philippine House of Representatives approved a proposal on Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty, paving the way for capital punishment to be restored more than a decade after it was abolished.
?It is definitely unacceptable to railroad the passage of the death penalty bill because for burning issues such as this, congressional deliberations are not just for its members alone ? they are also for the people,? he said.
Bishops said in a letter that was read in all churches last month that they ?unequivocally oppose proposals and moves to return the death penalty into the Philippine legal system.??We regret that there are strident efforts to restore the death penalty,? the letter said.
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