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(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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