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In 1996, Republic Act 8177 was passed, prescribing the use of lethal injection as the method of carrying out capital punishment. Executions resumed in 1999, starting with Leo Echegaray, who was put to death by lethal injection under President Joseph Estrada, marking the first execution after the reinstatement of the death penalty. The next ...
Less than a month later, Echegaray was executed via lethal injection on February 5, 1999. Echegaray was told of the court ruling at noon, three hours before he was to die by lethal injection at Manila's New Bilibid Prison. He is the first man to be executed in the Philippines since 1976. Echegaray's final statement was:
Lethal injection was also adopted as a method of execution by Guatemala in 1996, China in 1997, the Philippines in 1999, Thailand in 2003, Taiwan in 2005, Vietnam in 2013, [12] the Maldives in 2014 [13] and Nigeria in 2015. [14] The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006. [15]
Then Nelson, facing eternity, offered his final phrase. “I’m not scared. I’m at peace. Let’s ride, Warden,” the killer said right before he was lethally injected.
All seven executions made from 1999 to 2000 were carried out through lethal injection. [19] Guatemalan law still allows for the death penalty and lethal injection is the sole method allowed, but no penalties have been carried out since 2000 when the country experienced the live televised double executions of Amílcar Cetino Pérez and Tomás ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.
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South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a ...