A passage of a law promoting death penalty is practical.

The passage of a death penalty law is not considered to be cruel, degrading or inhuman
punishment.

Under Section 19 of Art. III of the 1987 Constitution:

Section 19. (1) Excessive fines shall not be imposed, nor cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment
inflicted. Neither shall death penalty be imposed, unless, for compelling reasons involving heinous
crimes, the Congress hereafter provides for it. Any death penalty already imposed shall be reduced to
reclusion perpetua.
(2) The employment of physical, psychological, or degrading punishment against any prisoner or
detainee or the use of substandard or inadequate penal facilities under subhuman conditions shall be
dealt with by law.

In the case of People v. Camano, (115 SCRA 688), we ruled that the death penalty is
not cruel, unjust or excessive. Citing the case of Harden v. Director of Prisons, 81 Phil.
we further said that: têñ.£îhqw â£

The penalty complained of is neither cruel, unjust nor excessive. In Ex-parte Kemmler,
136 U.S., 436, the United States Supreme Court said that 'punishments are cruel when
they involve torture or a lingering death, but the punishment of death is not cruel within
the meaning of that word as used in the constitution. It implies there something
inhuman and barbarous something more than the mere extinguishment of life.

Even the Revised Penal Code, provided for death as a punishment