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    Deathrow Reaction Paper

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    The document discusses capital punishment in the Philippines and issues highlighted in the movie "Deathrow". It notes that the right to life is considered most important under Philippine law. Prior to 2006, the death penalty was legal for heinous crimes, but it was then abolished. The movie shows how one's life can be at stake if ruled guilty of a crime they did not commit, and how social status can impact justice. It also shows the struggle of proving innocence without sufficient evidence and the risk of the death penalty for those who cannot prove they did not commit the crime. One's fate depends heavily on the evidence provided to prove their innocence.

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    The document discusses capital punishment in the Philippines and issues highlighted in the movie "Deathrow". It notes that the right to life is considered most important under Philippine law. Prior to 2006, the death penalty was legal for heinous crimes, but it was then abolished. The movie shows how one's life can be at stake if ruled guilty of a crime they did not commit, and how social status can impact justice. It also shows the struggle of proving innocence without sufficient evidence and the risk of the death penalty for those who cannot prove they did not commit the crime. One's fate depends heavily on the evidence provided to prove their innocence.

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    The document discusses capital punishment in the Philippines and issues highlighted in the movie "Deathrow". It notes that the right to life is considered most important under Philippine law. Prior to 2006, the death penalty was legal for heinous crimes, but it was then abolished. The movie shows how one's life can be at stake if ruled guilty of a crime they did not commit, and how social status can impact justice. It also shows the struggle of proving innocence without sufficient evidence and the risk of the death penalty for those who cannot prove they did not commit the crime. One's fate depends heavily on the evidence provided to prove their innocence.

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    Deathrow Reaction Paper

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    The document discusses capital punishment in the Philippines and issues highlighted in the movie "Deathrow". It notes that the right to life is considered most important under Philippine law. Prior to 2006, the death penalty was legal for heinous crimes, but it was then abolished. The movie shows how one's life can be at stake if ruled guilty of a crime they did not commit, and how social status can impact justice. It also shows the struggle of proving innocence without sufficient evidence and the risk of the death penalty for those who cannot prove they did not commit the crime. One's fate depends heavily on the evidence provided to prove their innocence.

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    DEATHROW REACTION PAPER

    In the hierarchy of rights, the right to life is considered at the topmost. That is why for
    taking of one’s life, the law provides for penalties. But, it cannot just simply be taken away as a
    means of punishment as well. Prior to the abolishment of capital punishment, death penalty is
    legal in the Philippines. It was only in June 2006 when then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
    signed Republic Act No. 9346, also known as An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of the Death
    Penalty in the Philippines, where death penalty was abolished. Now, focusing on the era of
    capital punishment, heinous crimes committed by person equals to a death penalty.

    During the showing of the movie “Deathrow”, I got a glimpse on how Philippines’
    justice system works. How a person’s life may be at stake because he was ruled to have been
    committed a crime which he was innocent of. How a person’s status in life plays a big part in
    rendering justice. Or that, a person, shorten of evidence to prove his innocence, life may simply
    be taken away from him.

    On Philippines’ justice system, as much as we want justice to be served, we cannot, at all


    times. Judges based their judgement on the weight of the evidence provided by the parties. One
    can be acquitted if he sufficiently adduced evidence to prove that he did not commit the crime. In
    the movie, it was shown that the counsel, struggling to defend his client, is face with the dilemma
    of providing evidence to prove the minority of the latter. To which, failure to do so would not
    clothe the minor from juvenile protection and would later put him in a death row; and the taking
    of his life.

    On evidences needed to prove that one is not guilty of the crime he was alleged to have
    been committed, these pieces of paper, testimonies, and objects are considered as accused’s
    saving grace. His right to life depends on these; it would determine his faith. It is a sad thought
    that one’s life would just depend on a piece of paper; as easy as that.

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