If the plan of Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez succeeds, the death penalty bill will not be limited to drug-related cases after all. It will also cover rape and plunder.

Alvarez on Monday said a second bill may be filed, this time including other heinous crimes that will be punishable by death.

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