Because We Are Christian and Filipino

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 310-334
Author(s):  
Jayeel Cornelio ◽  
Prince Kennex Aldama
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
Christian Leaders

Abstract As part of his campaign against criminality, President Duterte has called for the reinstatement of the death penalty in the Philippines. Its most vocal supporters are evangelical and independent Christian leaders and lawmakers. Although a religious minority, these entities are politically influential. In this article we show that they support the death penalty because they are Christian and Filipino. They articulate their support in two respects: it is biblical and it must be administered on heinous crimes for the sake of innocent people. We unpack these statements in terms of a religious citizenship that disregards the reality of religious diversity in Philippine society.

scholarly journals Governing through Killing: The War on Drugs in the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. JOHNSON ◽  
Jon FERNQUEST
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
First Year ◽  
Harsh Punishment ◽  
The World

AbstractThis article focuses on the war on drugs in the Philippines in order to explore issues related to extra-judicial killing, which remains common in many countries that have abolished the death penalty and in many more that retain it but seldom carry out judicial executions. In the first year of Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency (2016–17), thousands of people were killed by police or by vigilantes who were encouraged to prosecute his war on drugs. At a time when democracy is in retreat in many parts of the world, this case illustrates how popular harsh punishment can be in states that have failed to meet their citizens’ hopes for freedom, economic growth, and security.

Philippines anti-crime push will expand

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Credit Ratings ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
Legal Challenges

Significance The president focused on his administration's anti-illegal narcotics purge, a campaign that is raising human rights concerns domestically and globally. Impacts Legal challenges against Duterte's crime crackdown are probable, but their success is uncertain. The new government's relations with the influential Catholic Church will be tested, as will Duterte's partnership with Robredo. If the crime crackdown is seen as out of control, the business environment, credit ratings and investments in the Philippines may suffer. There is a risk of innocent people, including foreign workers, being affected by vigilantism. International relations may suffer if the Philippines is perceived to have a 'human rights problem'.

Public policies, interfaith associations and religious minorities: a new policy paradigm? Evidence from the case of Barcelona

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mar Griera
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Local Level ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Governance Tools ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Public Sphere

Religious diversity is posing new and urgent challenges to local authorities and there is no solid foundation of expertise in dealing with this issue at the local level. In some European cities, interfaith platforms are providing local authorities with new governance tools to cope with the challenges of religious diversity and are generating new ways of framing and representing religion in the public sphere. The author takes the city of Barcelona as a case study with the aim of exploring the emergence of a new model for dealing with religious minority issues that goes beyond State–Church relations and the political legacies in this area.

WHAT, IF ANYTHING, MAKES THE DEATH PENALTY UNJUSTIFIED?

Think ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (35) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Bruce B. Suttle
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Innocent People

Preface: Of course it is recognized that miscarriages of justice do occur, innocent people are wrongly punished, even executed. This can never be excused or justified. Never. But this is not the issue here. Rather, I am positing, for the sake of the inquiry, that the punishment imposed pertains to only those who are truly guilty of their crimes.

Normative fault-lines of trans-national human rights jurisprudence: National pride and religious prejudice in the European legal space

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL AUGENSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
National Level ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
European Court ◽  
Legal Space ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe article explores the relationship between religious pluralism and national-majoritarian models of social cohesion in European human rights jurisprudence. Comparing the German, French and British interpretation of the ‘social cohesion limitation’ of freedom of religion it contends that, at the national level, concerns for social cohesion are fuelled by attitudes towards religious diversity that range from indifference to intolerance and that are difficult to reconcile with the normative premises of religious pluralism in a democratic society. The second section of the article traces the relationship between religious pluralism and social cohesion in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The analysis suggests that the diversity of national-majoritarian approaches to social cohesion in Europe prevents the Court from ensuring an effective trans-national protection of religious pluralism. The third section turns to the controversial Lautsi judgments of the European Court of Human Rights to place the Court’s approach to religious minority protection in the context of trans-national judicial politics in the European legal space. The concluding section suggests an alternative approach to religious pluralism and social cohesion that vindicates religious diversity and does justice to the counter-majoritarian telos of human rights protection.

The Value of Life

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minorities ◽  
The Social

The use of the death penalty in modern civilized nations is unnecessary and destructive of the social order. A careful review of the evidence indicates that, even when the risk of execution has been relatively high, the death penalty has not been shown to provide better protection for society than available alternatives. The use of the death penalty has, in fact, encouraged murder, and innocent people have been executed. The death penalty has been discriminatorily applied to racial and ethnic minorities and will continue to be, despite the current Supreme Court guidelines. The death penalty has few economic advantages, and systematic use of restitution and recoupment would make the death penalty a decided economic disadvantage for society. Setting a poor model for the community, the death penalty reduces respect for the law and places a low value on human life.

Forensic DNA evidence and the death penalty in the Philippines

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C.A. De Ungria ◽  
M.S. Sagum ◽  
G.C. Calacal ◽  
F.C. Delfin ◽  
K.A. Tabbada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Forensic Dna ◽  
Dna Evidence
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