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Lagman: Reviving death penalty will affect PH negotiations for OFWs on death row

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 01 02:48 AM

If the Philippines revives the death penalty, the country will lose its "moral ascendancy" in negotiations involving Filipinos facing capital punishment overseas. Read more »

Families of drug war victims call on gov't not to reimpose death penalty in PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 12:36 AM

Human rights groups and families of drug war victims appeal to the government not to revive death penalty in the Philippines. Read more »

Pangilinan asks Dela Rosa: Why revive death penalty if 'Oplan Tokhang' succeeded?

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 29 09:38 PM

Sen. Francis Pangilinan on Wednesday questioned the need to reimpose the death penalty for those convicted of drug-related crimes after the government claimed that its house-to-house search for drug suspects and users was a success. Read more »

Pacquiao: Gov’t ‘biblically’ allowed to impose death penalty on heinous crimes

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 29 08:47 PM

Pacquiao, a devout Christian, has repeatedly pushed for the reimposition of capital punishment since 2016, saying even Jesus Christ was sentenced to death. Read more »

Senate can 'multi-task' to pass death penalty despite COVID-19 crisis- Dela Rosa

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 29 06:42 PM

Sen. Ronald dela Rosa on Wednesday said the Senate can "multi-task" to ensure that a bill reviving death penalty in the Philippines can be passed while the country continues to grapple with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. Read more »

Sotto hits PNP chief's claim 50 grams of drugs ‘enough’ to merit death penalty

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 29 06:37 PM

Senate President Tito Sotto on Wednesday refuted the Philippine National Police chief's claim that individuals who would be caught with at least 50 grams of illegal drugs can be sentenced to death should capital punishment be revived in the Philippines.   Read more »

Death penalty, gustong ibalik ni Pangulong Duterte

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 28 07:58 PM

Gusto ng Pangulo na maibalik ang parusang kamatayan para sa mga kasong may kinalaman sa droga.  Read more »

Sotto says 'better chances' for death penalty revival after Duterte's 5th SONA

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 28 11:27 PM

MANILA (UPDATE)- Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday said the passage of a law that would revive capital punishment in the Philippines has "better chances" after President Rodrigo Duterte pushed for the policy in his 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA). Read more »

Man sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom call

Reuters
Posted at May 20 01:51 PM

A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely. Read more »

India hangs 4 over 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape

Jalees Andrabi and Abhaya Srivastava, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 20 08:35 PM

India executed 4 men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. Read more »

US executes man convicted of killing 5 family members in 2002

Brendan O'Brien, Reuters
Posted at Feb 07 11:23 AM

Texas on Thursday executed a man who was convicted for shooting and killing his 29-year-old wife and his 2 daughters, as well as his father-in-law and sister-in-law shortly after smoking crack in 2002. Read more »

Man convicted of killing ex-wife, boyfriend executed in US

Brendan O'Brien, Reuters
Posted at Jan 30 11:57 AM

A man convicted more than 2 decades ago of shooting and killing his ex-wife's boyfriend and then bludgeoning her to death with the shotgun he used was executed by lethal injection in Georgia on Wednesday. Read more »

Death penalty debate should be revived after Maguindanao massacre verdict: Marcos

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 20 04:03 PM

Discussions about the reimposition of the death penalty for heinous should be revived, a lawmaker said Friday, a day after 5 of 7 members of a political clan was convicted for the brutal killing of 58 people in Maguindanao in 2009. Read more »

Death penalty usage declined in US in 2019: group

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 18 03:51 AM

This year's 22 executions were the second-lowest since 1991, while California halted executions and New Hampshire abolished the punishment completely. Read more »

Pakistan court sentences former military ruler Musharraf to death for treason

Asif Shahzad, Reuters
Posted at Dec 17 05:22 PM

Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on the sentence, handed down by an anti-terrorism court hearing the high treason case. Read more »

Boston Marathon bomber seeks to avoid death penalty

Tim McLaughlin, Reuters
Posted at Dec 12 08:55 PM

Tsarnaev, now 26, was sentenced to death in 2015 after a jury found him guilty of killing three people in the April 15, 2013 bombing - Martin Richard, 8; Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 26, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell - and murdering Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, three days later as the brothers attempted to flee. Read more »

Iran sentences man to death for spying for the CIA

Reuters
Posted at Oct 01 05:37 PM

Iranian courts have sentenced one person to death for spying for the CIA and jailed two others for 10 years for the same crime, as well as imprisoning a fourth person for 10 years for spying for Britain, the judiciary said on Tuesday. Read more »

Angara supports death penalty for heinous crimes

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 05 11:34 AM

Sen. Sonny Angara on Thursday said he would support restoring death penalty for heinous crimes. Read more »

China executes ride-hailing driver who killed passenger

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 31 05:20 AM

BEIJING, China—China on Friday executed a man convicted of raping and killing a female passenger last year while he was working as a driver for ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, China's omnipresent answer to Uber. Read more »

Of Presidents and the Penalty of Death

Joel F. Ariate Jr, VERA Files
Updated as of Aug 15 10:23 AM

President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (December 30, 1965-February 25, 1986) had 32 convicts executed. Sixteen of them were executed after martial law was declared. Read more »