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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.
After Marcos was deposed in 1986, the newly drafted 1987 Constitution prohibited the death penalty but allowed Congress to reinstate it "hereafter" for "heinous crimes"; making the Philippines the first Asian country to abolish capital punishment. The death penalty was replaced by reclusion perpetua. [32]
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.
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
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 ...
Pages in category "Murder in the Philippines" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Hultman–Chapman murder case; M. My Way killings; V.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison, the ...
The Dacer–Corbito double murder case is one of the unsolved murders occurred in the Philippines [1] during the administration of Joseph Estrada. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2000, Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were abducted in Metro Manila , later killed, and their vehicle dumped.