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A law hatched in hell

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So how many cold-blooded criminals are roaming in our midst now, after they were released from the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City by virtue of Republic Act 10592?

This question now lurks in the public mind in the wake of the alarming news about the possible release of former Calauan, Laguna mayor Antonio Sanchez along with six of his henchmen who were convicted of murder with rape and other charges in 1995. 

Who wasn't flabbergasted by news reports that these demons might  be freed in the near future as their supposed sentences were commuted under the provision of RA 10592 for "good conduct allowance."

That is preposterous as Sanchez cannot possibly be credited with good behavior after it surfaced that he was found in possession of P1.5 million worth of shabu or crystal meth inside his crib at the maximum security facility.

He and his followers were allegedly responsible for smuggling in shabu for sale inside the prisons, so how could he possibly be credited for good behavior?

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Instead of commuting his sentence, he should be penalized with another life term behind bars.

Sanchez et al. were meted at least seven life sentences for the 1993 murder-rape of Eileen Sarmenta and the torture-killing of her friend Allan Gomez. 

A notorious mayor at the time, Sanchez had Sarmenta for a "birthday gift" to himself when his brother and his goons abducted the 19-year-old girl. Her schoolmate at the University of the Philippines-Los Baños, Gomez, was forcibly taken, tortured and killed.

Judge Harriet O. Demetriou of the Pasig City Regional Trial Court, Branch 70, found Sanchez guilty on March 11, 1995, describing the crime as "hatched in hell."

Now Sanchez et al. might be the beneficiaries of a law hatched in hell. The question is: How much?

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