MANILA, Philippines — The revival of the death penalty has a “50-50 chance” of passage in the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said Sunday.
Debates on whether the death penalty should be reinstated in the country were revived following the fatal shooting of a mother and son in the hands of a policeman in Tarlac.
Asked about the possibility of a death penalty measure being approved in the upper chamber, Zubiri said: “We are a body that will decide, so kung magkaroon ng botohan I think 50-50 yung chance, pero ‘di po natin haharangin ito kung gusto nila pagdebatehan ito, pwede naman natin pagdebatihan.”
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