THE Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) has called for “understanding” from the influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on the need to re-impose the death penalty, arguing that it is the best deterrent to heinous crimes.

In a letter to CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, VACC chairman Dante Jimenez warned that without the death penalty, crime would continue unabated and the country would remain crime-ridden.

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