Underdog pulls through again
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While many are not too hot about Vice President Jejomar Binay pursuing a reversal of a legal judgment in another country involving drug offenders, particularly since China was right in asserting its own strict laws against trafficking of illegal substances, it was a big surprise for Binay to have won a reprieve of the executions of three Filipinos starting tomorrow.
The stay in the execution gives the delegation led by Binay in China more time to negotiate with Chinese authorities who are nonetheless adamant about the enforcement of its laws.
The strict enforcement of laws is a necessity for a country with a population of more than 1 billion where chaos as a result of the inconsistency in the application of the law should have no room.
Binay’s team was a last-ditch attempt of the government to seek some form of judicial relief for the three Filipino death convicts after the Chinese ignored daily calls from Noynoy that spanned almost a week -- that is according to Malacañang..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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