The non-mandatory imposition of the death penalty for heinous crimes has made a number of lawmakers more likely to vote in favor of the restoration of capital punishment, Deputy Speaker Ferdinand Hernandez of South Cotabato said on Monday.
Hernandez added that such consensus of imposing either life imprisonment or death penalty for heinous crimes instead of a mandatory death penalty was reached during a caucus last week.
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