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Double murder. On December 20, 2020, a shooting incident occurred in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines, when a police officer, Jonel Nuezca, fatally shot two of his neighbors, Sonia and Frank Gregorio, after a heated argument over an improvised noisemaker (boga). The victims' relatives and the perpetrator's underage daughter were present at the ...
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. The Free Legal Assistance Group or FLAG lawyer Attorney Te worked to stay his execution due to controversies behind ...
17. Chuckwalla Valley Raceway (often referred to simply as Chuckwalla) is a motorsports road course located in Desert Center near Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California that first opened in 2010. [1] The track is a paved surface 2.68 miles (4.31 km) in length consisting of 17 turns. It is run in both clockwise and counter-clockwise ...
The Philippine police said on Wednesday they will investigate revelations made by former President Rodrigo Duterte that he assembled a "death squad" to control crime when he was mayor of the ...
Reclusión perpetua is the penalty handed down to inmates convicted of a capital crime (in which case they will be ineligible for parole) [1] as well as what the Republic Act 7659 designates as "heinous crimes" once punishable by death: [2] The Supreme Court of the Philippines has ruled that the Expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law ...
Capital punishment in the Philippines (Filipino: Parusang Kamatayan sa Pilipinas) specifically, the death penalty, as a form of state-sponsored repression, was introduced and widely practiced by the Spanish government in the Philippines. A substantial number of Filipino national martyrs like Mariano Gómez, [1] José Burgos, [2] and Jacinto ...
The Hultman–Chapman murder case (formally People of the Philippines vs. Claudio Teehankee Jr.) was a murder case that gained wide publicity in the Philippines during the early 1990s because Claudio Teehankee Jr., the perpetrator of the crime, was the son of the late former Chief Justice Claudio Teehankee and the brother of former Justice Undersecretary Manuel Teehankee.
Murder of Christine Silawan. Christine Lee Silawan, [4] (born 26 March 2002) a 16-year-old high school student and church collector, was found dead in a vacant lot in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu. [5] Her body was discovered with multiple stab wounds and her face skinned beyond recognition. She was also naked from the waist down and raped.