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This is a partial list of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the Philippines. The current 1987 constitution gives the president the ability to grant "executive clemency at anytime and under any circumstance". [1]
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Acting Executive Secretary and Press Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye quoted the signed order: "In view hereof in pursuant of the authority conferred upon me by the Constitution, I hereby grant Executive clemency to Joseph Ejercito Estrada, convicted by the Sandiganbayan of plunder and imposed a penalty of reclusion perpetua.
Acting Executive Secretary and Press Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye quoted the signed Order: "In view hereof in pursuant of the authority conferred upon me by the Constitution, I hereby grant Executive clemency to Joseph Ejercito Estrada, convicted by the Sandiganbayan of plunder and imposed a penalty of reclusión perpetua.
He was then brought to Muntinlupa Prison afterwards after a trial on November 29 [13] but was again granted executive clemency by President Quirino and paroled with 23 of his men, and 5,000 hectares of public land on Tawi-Tawi were set aside for him and his followers. However Kamlon and his men did not settle on Tawi-Tawi for various reasons.
The Hultman–Chapman murder case (formally People of the Philippines vs. Claudio Teehankee Jr.) was a high-profile murder case in the Philippines during the early 1990s. . The case gained wide publicity due to the involvement of Claudio Teehankee Jr., the son of former Chief Justice Claudio Teehankee and the brother of former Justice Undersecretary Manuel Teehan
In August 2024, Garcia filed a motion for executive clemency, aimed at a Presidential pardon to nullify his P407.8 million unpaid fine. The Bureau of Corrections ' Board of Pardons and Parole is studying the plea vis-à-vis the Ombudsman prosecutors' opposition, anchored on the Sandiganbayan ’s resolution of July 30. [ 17 ]
Board of Pardons and Parole (BPP) executive director Reynaldo Bayang revealed in a Senate inquiry that Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who served as Sanchez's defense counsel in the high-profile 1993 Sarmenta-Gomez rape-slay case, wrote the BPP regarding Sanchez's application for executive clemency in a letter dated February 26. [21]