G.R. No. 179187 - PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, VS. RENATO TALUSAN Y PANGANIBAN. D E C I S I O N - Supreme Court E-Library

Ruling

WHEREFORE, in view of all the foregoing discussions and finding the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt by his voluntary and spontaneous plea of guilty, while the undersigned Presiding Judge does not believe in the imposition of death penalty as a form of punishment, nevertheless, in obedience to the law which is his duty to uphold, this Court finds the accused, RENATO TALUSAN y PANGANIBAN, GUILTY , beyond reasonable doubt for the special complex crime of KIDNAPPING with RAPE and hereby sentences him to suffer the supreme penalty of DEATH . The Court did not consider the mitigating circumstance of voluntary plea of guilty because the penalty imposable is single and indivisible and this is regardless of its presence. x x x Accused is hereby ordered to pay the victim AAA, the amount of P50,000.00 by way of civil indemnity and an additional amount of P50,000.00 by way of moral damages which by case law is automatically awarded to rape victims without need of proof. x x x SO ORDERED.