PNP chief: Death penalty via lethal injection is enough
MANILA, Philippines – Death penalty through lethal injection is enough for drug-related and other heinous crimes, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde said Thursday.
Albayalde, however, explained that the means for enforcing capital punishment will “depend on what the law will say.”
“We are civilized people here so probably lethal injection would suffice,” he said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel.
His preference differs from that of Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, his predecessor as PNP chief, who wants death penalty through a firing squad to instill fear among criminals.
Albayalde stressed that enforcing capital punishment, aside from good law enforcement, will be a “good deterrent” against crimes.
He likewise pointed out that the death penalty is not anti-poor, since it will ago after big-time drug dealers and smugglers who “have connections, billions of pesos or dollars.”
The PNP chief said the death penalty should be imposed on big-time drug traffickers, those who maintain and finance drug dens and laboratories, as well as terrorists. /gsg
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