{"id":5110,"date":"2020-11-09T12:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:35:04","slug":"state-of-the-nation-address-2020-sona-and-reintroduction-of-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/state-of-the-nation-address-2020-sona-and-reintroduction-of-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Nation Address 2020 (SONA) and Reintroduction of the Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 5th SONA on July 27, 2020, President Duterte announced the reintroduction of the death penalty by lethal injection in connection with drug-related offences. Since August 5, 2020, the issue has thus been back on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/house-revive-death-penalty-hearings-august-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of Representatives&#8217; agenda<\/a>. The reintroduction of the death penalty would be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/08\/05\/death-penalty-danger-philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breach of the Second Optional Protocol<\/a> to the <strong>International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)<\/strong> to which the Philippines is a signatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 5th SONA on July 27, 2020, President Duterte announced the reintroduction of the death penalty by lethal injection in connection with drug-related offences. Since August 5, 2020, the issue has thus been back on the House of Representatives&#8217; agenda. The reintroduction of the death penalty would be a breach of the Second Optional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}