The brutal death of another San Beda College of Law student from apparent fraternity hazing has triggered calls for a review of Republic Act 8049, the antihazing law, presumably to make the penalties more exacting. But under Philippine statutes, what penalty can be graver than life imprisonment? And, as always, the problem is not the law but the implementation. Are the authorities serious in implementing it? Or is it that because many of the victims are law students and the victimizers belong to Greek-letter law fraternities, the law establishment and the justice system themselves have been undermining RA 8049?
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