
“What I will do is urge Congress to restore (the) death penalty by hanging,” Duterte, 71, told a press conference in Davao on Sunday. He also said he would give security forces “shoot-to-kill” orders against organised criminals or those who violently resisted arrest. “If you resist, show violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to shoot to kill. Shoot to kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised crime,” he said. He said military sharp shooters would be enlisted in his campaign to kill criminals. Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night. If children were picked up on the streets, their parents would be arrested and thrown into jail for “abandonment”, he said. Duterte said he wanted capital punishment – which was abolished in 2006 under then-president Gloria Arroyo – to be reintroduced for a wide range of crimes, particularly drugs, but also rape, murder and robbery. He added he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping the spine with a noose was more humane. Advertisement The centrepiece of Duterte’s stunningly successful election campaign strategy was a pledge to end crime within three to six months of being elected. Duterte vowed during the campaign to kill tens of thousands criminals, outraging his critics but hypnotising tens of millions of Filipinos fed up with rampant crime and graft. On one occasion he said 100,000 people would die, and so many bodies would be dumped in Manila Bay that the fish would grow fat from feeding on them. He complained on Sunday that people no longer feared the law, and he would change that. “We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only,” he said. “Do not destroy my country because I will kill you. I will kill you. No middle ground. As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest… and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.”
Source: Duterte vows to kill criminals and reintroduce hanging in Philippines | World news | The Guardian
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