Naghain si incoming House Speaker at Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez ng panukalang batas na naglalayong ibalik ang parusang bitay sa mga karumal-dumal na krimen sa pamamagitan ng lethal injection.
Sinamahan si Alvarez ni Capiz Rep. Fredenil Castro sa paghahain ng House Bill No. 01, o “An Act Reimposing Death Penalty on Certain Heinous Crimes.”
“Criminal justice system has had to make do with penal laws that are perceived to be less than dissuasive. There is evidently a need to reinvigorate the war against criminality by revising a deterrent coupled by its consistent, persistent and determined implementation,” pahayag nina Alvarez at Castro sa kanilang paghahain ng unang bill ng 17th Congress.
Hiniling din nina Alvarez at Castro na amyendahan ang Republic Act No. 9344 o ang “Juvenile Delinquency Act of 2006″, na mas kilala bilang Pangilinan Law upang ibalik ang minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) sa 9 na taon.
