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Jed Patrick Mabilog – Mayor of Iloilo City from 2010 until his dismissal by the Ombudsman in 2017, after he was found guilty of Serious Dishonesty (administrative case) for failing to explain his ₱8.9 million gain in wealth while in office. Pardoned on January 15, 2025.
Republic Act No. 386, the Civil Code of the Philippines (1949). Act No. 3815, the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines (1930). The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines. Luis B. Reyes, The Revised Penal Code: Criminal Law 20 (1998, 14th ed.). Antonio L. Gregorio, Fundamentals of Criminal Law Review 50-51 (1997).
Reclusión perpetua is the penalty handed down to inmates convicted of a capital crime (in which case they will be ineligible for parole) [1] as well as what the Republic Act 7659 designates as "heinous crimes" once punishable by death: [2]
The Revised Penal Code criminalizes a whole class of acts that are generally accepted as criminal, such as the taking of a life whether through murder or homicide, rape, robbery theft, and treason. The Code also penalizes other acts that are considered criminal in the Philippines, such as adultery, concubinage, and abortion. It expressly ...
Jennifer Laude was born on November 4, 1987. At the time of her death at the age of 26, she was engaged to a German national. While having a drink with her friend Barbie Gelviro at the Ambyanz Disco in Olongapo, on October 11, 2014, she met an American military foreigner and agreed to go with him to a "short time" hotel called the Celzone Lodge.
A court in Thailand on Thursday found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that ...
The capital crimes after the Philippines regained full sovereignty in July 1946 were murder and treason. However, no executions took place until April 25, 1950, [25] when Julio Gullien was executed for attempting to assassinate President Manuel Roxas. [26] Rape would later be listed as a capital crime in 1960. [27] [28]
QUITO (Reuters) -A court in Ecuador on Friday handed down prison sentences of 12 years and 34 years for five people found guilty of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.