Dr. Samuel Sheppard
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3 days ago · Even a commission of inquiry cannot declare someone guilty or innocent. While a commission may provide a factual report, it cannot send someone to jail. If the person accused is the superior head of the investigating agency, won't people suspect whether the investigation will be genuine?
4 days ago · The presumption of innocence is a crucial element of the Philippine criminal justice system, grounded in the 1987 Constitution and reinforced by international human rights law. It ensures that every individual charged with a crime is treated as innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
3 days ago · Maybe all of the people being put to death now are guilty, but there’s more than a sliver of a chance that someone among them is or was innocent—that’s eight executions, after all.
4 days ago · Even a commission of inquiry cannot declare someone guilty or innocent. While a commission may provide a factual report, it cannot send someone to jail. If the person accused is the superior head of the investigating agency, won't people suspect whether the investigation will be genuine?
4 days ago · Two hundred people have been exonerated and released from death row since 1972 — individuals who were innocent and on the brink of having their life taken away by the state. Inflicting the death penalty was not only a moral and societal failure, but a miscarriage of justice.
2 days ago · Even as security guards led her out of court, she cried out “I’m innocent.” It was an echo of her mother’s own anguished cries when the first guilty verdicts were returned last August.
2 days ago · The jury never gave a reason for its verdict, rather it simply gave a "guilty" or "non-guilty" verdict. The jury foreperson, elected by the jury on the first day, with three other jury members also made up the majority in the sentencing, if the accused were found guilty.
