THE highly-influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has proposed to the Duterte administration the overhauling of the country’s criminal justice system amid moves by Congress to re-impose the death penalty.
The CBCP president, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, made the appeal during a recent prayer rally in San Carlos City in Pangasinan, even as he reiterated that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crime but a stronger judicial system is.
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