A DUTERTE Presidency will see the return of the death penalty and the public hanging of convicted criminals to end criminality and corruption, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said once he gets elected to the country’s highest post.
“Within three to six months I will stop corruption in the government,” Duterte said in his weekly television program in Davao.
“I will stop criminality, I will stop drugs in other places. I will recommend to Congress the restoration of the death penalty by hanging in public. I will not hesitate to use the military and the police to stop it.”
Duterte also said half of the 3,000 to 5,000 drug lords would be eliminated once he and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, his running mate, were elected.
He would add P1,000 to the monthly salaries of school teachers.
“It’s time to finish the sad Christmas experience by our teachers,” Duterte said.
He said that in some areas the people were buying drugs with their farm animals.
“The drug trade has gone to the countrysides. They buy drugs using their pigs, their goats, their cows,” Duterte said.
He said he would propose to Congress the creation of special criminal courts to try drug cases. He criticized the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006, the law that protects the rights of minors in conflict with the law.
“It has not helped the country at all and instead has promoted criminality,” Duterte said of the law authored by LP senatorial bet and former Agriculture czar Francis Pangilinan.