To be on death row, this inmate would have been convicted of what RA 7659 lists as “heinous” crimes; acts impinged upon others that are so immoral and inhumane that to do them would be an abomination to human nature. Rape and homicide used to be heinous. Plunder as well. But the bill, now approved on its third and final reading in the House, has shifted the emphasis on what is heinous: drugs, from manufacture to importation. It had been watered down to exclude rape, plunder, and treason as crimes eligible for death penalty.