Killing criminals not right – CBCP official

THE killing of drug suspects – whether legal or extralegal – may be a popular solution but will never be the correct way to deal with criminality, a lay official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said on Tuesday.

Rodolfo Diamante, executive secretary of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care, added that killing those who had committed crimes may be “an effective tool in politicking,” but would be a “travesty.”