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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.
January 19, 1999) Supreme Court of the Philippines. Retrieved on 22 December 2006. People of the Philippines vs. Leo Echegaray y Pilo (G.R. No. 117472) - text of the Philippine Supreme Court ruling affirming the death penalty; Leo Echegaray vs. Secretary of Justice, et al. - text of the motion for reconsideration (i.e. the decision on Echegaray ...
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Prisoners sentenced to death by the Philippines. People who were ultimately executed by the Philippines should be placed in Category:People executed by the Philippines. For people of Filipino nationality sentenced to death, see Category:Filipino prisoners sentenced to death.
Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment
Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: ... Six states still consider the death penalty legal but have put executions on hold for various reasons, like the ...
13 (37%) maintain the death penalty in both law and practice. 1 (3%) permits its use, but has not used it for at least 10 years and is believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions. 5 (14%) have abolished it for all crimes except those committed under exceptional circumstances (such as during war).
First enacted in 1930, it remains in effect today, despite several amendments thereto. It does not comprise a comprehensive compendium of all Philippine penal laws. The Revised Penal Code itself was enacted as Act No. 3815, and some Philippine criminal laws have been enacted outside of the Revised Penal Code as separate Republic Acts.