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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.
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.
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
His death sparked the repeal of mandatory ROTC training in Philippine tertiary institutions and the enactment of the National Service Training Program. 15 April 2001 Felix Frayna, former mayor of Santa Magdalena, Sorsogon [124] 17 April 2001 Lope Asis, Mayor of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur [125] New People's Army 18 April 2001
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action.. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in ...
The cause of death for baseball legend Pete Rose has been revealed. Rose, MLB’s all-time hits leader who was banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling on Cincinnati Reds games while he served as ...
Death penalty for murder, aggravated murder, drug smuggling, terrorism, arms trafficking, armed robbery resulting in death, certain military offenses (e.g. cowardice, assisting the enemy, abetting a successful mutiny), kidnapping, rape, gang rape, perjury in a capital case leading execution of an innocent person, hijacking, sabotage of the ...