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agandang Buhay
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Section19
(1)Excessive fines shall not be imposed, norcruel, degrading or inhuman punishment
inflicted. Neither shall the death penalty be
imposed, unless for compelling reasons
involving heinous crimes the ongress hereafterprovides for it. !ny death penalty already
imposed shall be reduced to reclusion perpetua.
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Death Penalty for Heinous Crimes
(Republic Act No. 7659
An act to impose the death penalty on certain heinous
crimesAmend several provisions of theRevised Penal Code of
the Philippines.
Approved on December 13, 1993.
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"une #$,#%%&
Republic Act No. 9346 entitled An Act Prohibiting the
Imposition of eath Penalt! in the Philippines "as
signed b! Pres. #loria $acapagal%Arro!o.
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(#)'he employment of physical, psychological, or
degrading punishment against any prisoner or
detainee or to use of substandard or inadeuate
penal facilities under subhuman conditions shall
be dealt ith by la.
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Afine is excessive when under any circumstance.
Apunishment is cruel and unusual if it is flagrantly and
plainly oppressive and wholly disproportionate to the
nature of the offense as to shock the moral sense of the
community.
*eath penalty, which is recognized by the 193 and
19!3 constitutions, is not considered as cruel and
unusual punishment.
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Section #%
No person shall be imprisoned for dept or
non+payment of poll tax.
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oll tax is a ta" of a fi"ed amount imposed on the
individuals residing within a specified territory, whether
citizen or not, without regard to their property or the
occupation they are engaged in.
*ebt means any liability to pay money out of a contract
e"pressed or implied and not payment, arising from crimes
or delicts.
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Exceptions# $here is no violation of section %& in the
following cases#
$o imprison a person for failure to pay license fees or
ta"es.
$o imprison one for failure to pay fines and penalties
imposed by the court in a criminal case.
$o penalize an employer who refused to pay his
employees their corresponding wages
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SE'-N #1
No person shall be tice put in /eopardy of
punishment for the same offense. -f an act is
punished by a la and an ordinance, conviction,
or acuittal under either shall constitute a bar to
another prosecution for the same act.
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$he right against double /eopardy means that when a
person is charged with an offense and the case is terminated
either by ac'uittal or conviction or in any other manner
without the e"pressed consent of the accused.
An accused is placed in legal (eopardy when sub(ected or
tried under the following conditions#
)e has been previously brought to trial upon a valid
complaint or information*
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+nformationcomplaint was filed before a court of
competent (urisdiction*
)e has been arraigned and has pleaded to the charge*
)e has been convicted or ac'uitted or the case against
him has been dismissed or otherwise terminated without his
e"press consent*
)e is presently charged for the same offense.
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Section ##
No ex+post facto la or bill of attainder shall
be enacted.
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Ex post facto la
An act of punishable in a manner in which it was
not punishable when committed or which increases the
punishment more than what the law anne"ed to the crime when
committed.
-" post facto law partakes in any of the following forms#
A law that makes an action already done, criminal and
punishes such action*
A law that aggravates a crime or makes it greater than that it
was when committed*
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A law that changes the punishment*
A law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives
less or different testimony of the offense in order to easily
convict the offender.
0ill of !ttainder
A legislative act which inflicts punishment without
(udicial trial. $he prohibition against the enactment of bill of
attainder is designed as a general safeguard against
legislative e"ercise of the (udicial function, or simply, trial
by legislature.
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