Death penalty Death penalty is the controversial topic in the Philippines today. In the Philippines the religious sector is the biggest stumbling blocked that influence the law makers in dealing with the State affairs. It is the only country that divorced is not being implemented and by far from being enacted into law because it's against religious belief and morality. Even to introduce the law on family planning has been blocked by the so called moral rights, the catholic. I am a catholic by faith and by heart but I'm in favor of the separation of church and State. Now, death penalty is in the course of a major discussion and argument in the house of Senate, majority said that this will never deter criminality. As studies shows, when the death penalty was implemented crime rates has not declined. But the proposal to implement death penalty was not to deter criminality but to sake retribution to the victims of the henious crime. Deterrence of criminality was not the issue according to the present administration but to give justice to the victim who were unmercifully killed by those evil criminals. As goes to confirm under the old law, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.