Pro-Death Penalty Club
During the years when death penalty was still being operated, there was a group of judges who has a strong advocacy towards death penalty and who would gladly give out a verdict for capital punishment. Famously called the Guillotine Club, the group was founded in 1995 by Quezon City judge Maximiano Asuncion. According to him, if criminals can crate syndicates that could terrorize ordinary people, then law-abiding citizens such as judges should be able to create their own groups to scare criminals. judge Asuncion was recorded to have given seven death sentences throughout his career. He was also the presiding judge for the high-profile case of Leo Echegaray, convicted of the crime of raping his own daughter, whom he subsequently sentenced to death. However, he never got to see the sentence carried out. He passed away from a heart attack two years before Echegaray’s execution.
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