SEVERAL incumbent and returning senators are open to the proposal of presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte to restore the death penalty but the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said the reimposition of capital punishment will not deter crime.

Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th said that he favors Duterte’s proposal but it should not be by hanging.

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