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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. [45] During the 2016 election campaign, presidential candidate and frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte campaigned to restore the death penalty in the Philippines.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
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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 ...
(The Center Square) – Following through on a pledge she made months ago, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg on Friday announced her office was seeking the death penalty in the prosecution ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...