In Defense of the Right to Life: International Law and Death Penalty in the Philippines

CHR: ‘Death penalty inhuman, cruel, degrading, disadvantageous to poor’
Manila Bulletin | https://mb.com.ph/2022/11/01/chr-death-penalty-inhuman-crueldegrading-disadvantageous-to-poor/, November 01, 2022

National Human Rights Institutions in South East Asia - Appeal for Clemency for Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam
Commission on Human Rights, April 06, 2022

Statement of CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez Dumpit on the Commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Death Penalty
Commission on Human Rights | https://chr.gov.ph/statement-of-chr-commissioner-karen-gomez-dumpit-on-the-commemoration-of-the-15th-anniversary-of-the-abolition-of-the-death-penalty/, June 24, 2021

Statement of Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit on the United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty
Commission on Human Rights | http://chr.gov.ph/statement-of-commissioner-karen-gomez-dumpit-on-the-united-nations-general-assembly-resolution-on-moratorium-on-the-use-of-the-death-penalty/, December 17, 2020

Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit delivered before the Committee on Justice House of Representatives
Commission on Human Rights | https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/photos/a.784575471659000/2909617312488128/, September 24, 2020

Transcript of Comm. Karen Gomez-Dumpit Oral Arguments Committee on Justice, House of Representatives 05 August 2020
Commission on Human Rights, August 05, 2020

Message of Comm. Karen S. Gomez-Dumpit delivered before the Committee on Justice, House of Representatives
Comm. Karen S. Gomez-Dumpit Message | https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/photos/a.784575471659000/2912774812172378/, June 25, 2020

Statement of Commissioner Karen S. Gomez Dumpit on the 17th World Day against Death Penalty
Commission on Human Rights | http://chr.gov.ph/statement-of-commissioner-karen-s-gomez-dumpit-on-the-17th-world-day-against-death-penalty/, October 10, 2019

CHR OK Card: Locsin opposes death penalty, says it wont work
Commission on Human Rights | https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/photos/a.784575471659000/2213319572117909/, July 24, 2019

Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on remarks advocating the reintroduction of death penalty by rope
Commission on Human Rights | https://chr.gov.ph/statement-of-chr-spokesperson-atty-jacqueline-ann-de-guia-on-remarks-advocating-the-reintroduction-of-death-penalty-by-rope/, July 24, 2019

Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on proposals to restore death penalty in the country
Commission on Human Rights | http://chr.gov.ph/statement-of-chr-spokesperson-atty-jacqueline-ann-de-guia-on-proposals-to-restore-death-penalty-in-the-country/, June 28, 2019

Statement of CHR Commissioner Karen S. Gomez-Dumpit on the Possible Restoration of the Death Penalty
Commission on Human Rights | https://www.facebook.com/notes/commission-on-human-rights-of-the-philippines/statement-of-chr-commissioner-karen-gomez-dumpit-on-the-possible-restoration-of-/2101862306596, May 19, 2019

Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the withdrawal of the House of Representatives of its approval of imposing death penalty for drug possession
Commission on Human Rights, February 07, 2019

16th World Day Against Death Penalty Recommendations/Ways Forward on the SWS Survey on the Death Penalty
Commissioner Karen S. Gomez Dumpit, October 18, 2018

Statement of CHR Spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on Senator Manny Pacquiao’s remarks supporting death penalty through the Bible (2018)
Commission on Human Rights Statement link | https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/photos/a.892066110909935/1713839952065876/, August 09, 2018

CHR reiterates stance on the death penalty in End Crime, Not Life Public Forum
Commission on Human Rights, August 17, 2017

CHR Reiterates Stance on Death Penalty at End Crime, Not Life Public Forum (2017)
Commission on Human Rights | https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/photos/a.784575471659000/1341041602679048/, August 17, 2017

CHR Remains Firm Against the Reimposition of the Death Penalty
Commission on Human Rights, March 07, 2017

CHR Statement on the Passing of House Bill No. 4727 (Reimposition of the Death Penalty) on Second Reading
Commission on Human Rights, March 02, 2017

Commission on Human Rights on the Death Penalty (2017)
Commission on Human Rights | https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/photos/a.784575471659000/1158481100935100/, February 07, 2017

Advisory on the Reimposition of the Death Penalty - CHR (V) A2016-002
Commission on Human Rights, November 07, 2016

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CHR Statements

Statement of CHR Commissioner Karen S. Gomez-Dumpit on the Possible Restoration of the Death Penalty

May 19, 2019, Commission on Human Rights

The Commission is ready to engage Congress in a frank and factual conversation about the death penalty.

We are ready to present the ineffectiveness of the death penalty and offer viable programs that result in crime prevention and lowering crime incidence. These include police visibility or increasing police to population ratios and community vigilance. We fully support these initiatives that do not diminish our principles to uphold the right to life.

We also have to ensure that our legal obligations as a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Second Optional Protocol aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty are respected and fulfilled. As a state party to these human rights treaties, we have perpetually committed not to impose nor reintroduce capital punishment.

The Commission does not want crime to go unpunished. However, the apprehension, prosecution, conviction and punishment of those who have committed wrong doings must be in accordance with human rights standards and principles.

CHR Statements index:

Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on proposals to restore death penalty in the country
Statement of CHR spokesperson, Atty. Jacqueline Ann de Guia, on the withdrawal of the House of Representatives of its approval of imposing death penalty for drug possession