THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared Friday by videoconference before judges at the International Criminal Court, days after his arrest in Manila on murder charges linked to the deadly “war on drugs” he oversaw while in office.
The 79-year-old Duterte didn’t show up at the court in The Hague, but appeared on a video screen from the detention center where he is being held, about a mile (1½ kilometers) away.
No because advanced countries such as the Netherlands have abolished that barbaric act.
The barbaric act of crimes against humanity? There is zero doubt as to his guilt and role in causing said deaths.
There is no benefit to attempting reform, there is no risk he isn’t the right offender, and there is no benefit to paying to keep him detained.
For some crimes, death is fine. As it was for Mussolini.
The point is we’re not as cruel as he is, his government killed people let’s not advocate for ours to do the same as it has been used disproportionately used on bipoc individuals. The death penalty is falling out of favor universally around the world. Check how many countries banned it at this point.
There’s nothing cruel about it. Cruel would be locking him up for years if anything.
There is no material reason to keep him alive in light of what he has done.
Sentence him and end him, let the next wannabe mass murderer know what fate awaits them.
No, because he can talk to his family and think over about his actions.
We should not be thinking about any living breathing person like that. It actually costs more to execute someone than for them to just live their days in prison.
While being locked up and deprived of freedoms. Death is preferable to life in prison.
It costs more because of expenses around ensuring you have the right person and giving them a chance to appeal. That’s not needed here.
You skirting past the extra legal costs in having to execute someone. It costs less to house them.
If anyone deserves it… At 79, I doubt he’ll survive his time in a civil detention. But were a bunch of the relatives and friends of his victims to show up at his jail cell and afford him the Mussolini treatment, I could hardly blame them.
But its so unusual for a guy like this to get held to account, I suppose I shouldn’t complain. Normally, your Francos and Batistas and Pinochets and Pahlavis die in the lap of luxury. Very rarely do you get a Noriega or Park whose crimes finally catch up with them.