Create a gov’t unit for death penalty and blood money cases

THE Philippine government has a policy of helping the families of OFWs in the Middle East who commit the crime of killing an Arab and is sentenced to death for the crime but whose execution could be stopped if the dead person’s family agrees to be paid “blood money.”

Very often, the OFWs who find themselves in this horrible situation killed someone in self-defense, or in the case of women, in defense of their honor--they killed perpetrators attempting to rape them. But there have been instances when our compatriot found guilty of killing someone did so in anger and in felonious circumstances.