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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has berated the European parliament for passing a resolution condemning his plans to revive the death penalty for drug convicts.
The Philippine house of representatives approved a version of the death penalty bill this month that will allow the execution of drug convicts by hanging, firing squad, or lethal injection.
A resolution delivered by European Union lawmakers last week said it was "Deeply alarmed" that the Philippines was planning to reintroduce the death penalty and that it considers capital punishment to be "Cruel and inhuman ... which fails to act as a deterrent to criminal behaviour."
The body also condemned Duterte's open threats to kill human rights defenders, "Credible reports" that Philippine polices falsify evidence to justify extrajudicial killings, and plans to lower the age of criminal responsibility to nine years old.
More than two-thirds of all countries in the world have abolished the death penalty.
"Because there is a death penalty in Indonesia, Malaysia, and I'm trying to revive it," he said.
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