Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza on Thursday hailed reports that a bill reviving the death penalty is dead in the Senate

‘’If Senator Franklin Drilon’s claim is true, then that is very good news. We’ve always maintained that the death penalty is useless in fighting crime, it does not serve any purpose that is not already being served by the punishment of long-term imprisonment,” Atienza said in a statement.

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