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The death row cell block has been converted into a maximum security compound. The presiding judge, Lourdes Paredes San Diego, was against the death penalty for most of her life but only supported it as a last resort. In an interview on her daughter Jo’s radio show, she stated “Hija (my daughter), in the Philippines, rape is punishable by ...
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.
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. [45] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte campaigned to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
Massacred along with 26 others in a banquet hosted by Rajah Humabon shortly after the death of Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan. 25 October 1593 Gomez Perez Dasmariñas, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines: Killed in a mutiny by Chinese rowers during a Spanish military expedition to the Moluccas. 1596 Magalat, Cagayano rebel 1608
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.
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.
The Philippines, through the DFA, has filed more than 100 diplomatic protests over aggressive actions by China in the disputed waters since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took power in June last year.
The case of Kian delos Santos has been likened to the cases of other teenagers, 19-year-old Carl Arnaiz and 14-year-old Reynaldo "Kulot" De Guzman. Arnaiz went missing for 10 days; his dead body was found on August 28 in a morgue in Caloocan. [90] According to the Caloocan police, Arnaiz was involved in a robbery at C-3 road. The police alleged ...