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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.
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Biden’s motivation. A critic of capital punishment, Biden became the first U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty. In 2020, his campaign website stated that he would “work to pass ...
A foul-mouthed former Philippine president who jailed political rivals, insulted the pope and claims to have hired “death squad” gangsters is running for re-election in his hometown in a ...
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]
Capital punishment was abolished in 1993 but was reinstated by Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council in August 1995 [88] In February 2018, Gambia announced a moratorium on the death penalty. [89] In September 2018, it ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In May 2019, it commuted 22 ...