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People vs. Arnel B. Alicando [DISSENTING, KAPUNAN, J.]

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARNEL ALICANDO Y BRIONES, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 117487 | 1995-12-12

Separate Opinions
 
KAPUNAN, J., dissenting:
 
The civilized mind normally recoils at the idea of taking a man's life by way of retribution for the commission of a crime. However, every so often, a crime so dastardly and repulsive comes along that even an individual usually predisposed towards rehabilitating the hard-core criminal would no longer wish to suffer in silent rage at society's kid-glove treatment of such offender, but would readily opt to exact a commensurate requital in the form of capital punishment where circumstances so demand.
 
Sociological theory at least since Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) has...