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After Australian child rapist Peter Scully was arrested in February 2015, several Filipino prosecutors called for the death penalty to be reintroduced for violent sexual crimes. [47] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte campaigned to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Leo Pilo Echegaray (11 July 1960 – 5 February 1999) was the first Filipino to be executed after the reinstatement of the death penalty in the Philippines in 1993, some 23 years after the last judicial execution was carried out.
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...
The Chiong murder case (People of the Philippines v. Francisco Juan Larrañaga et al. ) was a trial regarding an incident on July 16, 1997, in Cebu City , in which sisters Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong were kidnapped, raped, and murdered.
A case was considered solved upon the surrender of the remaining three of 13 suspects in the landlord's murder in August 1996. [151] North Cotabato incident (Mass murder) 11 May 1997: Pigcawayan, North Cotabato: 5 (minor brothers) A case of alleged cannibalism. [152] Sara massacre (Rampage killing) 12 August 1998: Bacabac, Sara, Iloilo: 10
The 5-2 decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court follows a 2012 law that banned the imposition of death sentences on newly committed crimes.
People of Filipino nationality sentenced to death. Filipino people who were ultimately executed should be placed in Category:Executed Filipino people. For people who were sentenced to death by the Philippines, see Category:Prisoners sentenced to death by the Philippines.