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Electric chair or firing squad? Death row inmates in US state get to choose under new law

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 18 08:55 AM

WASHINGTON - The US state of South Carolina has introduced a law requiring death row prisoners to choose between firing squad and electric chair after a lack of lethal injection drugs halted executions for a decade. Read more »

Chinese death-row inmate digs tunnel to escape Indonesian jail

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 22 07:31 PM

Cai Ji Fan, sentenced to death in 2017 for trafficking 110 kilograms of methamphetamine, broke out of Tangerang prison in Banten last week via the narrow tunnel. Read more »

SC stands by ruling allowing Veloso to testify thru deposition in Indonesia

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 14 06:31 PM

MANILA – The Supreme Court has stood by its earlier ruling allowing Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina on death row in Indonesia, to testify in a Philippine case against her recruiters. Read more »

OFW na nasa death row sa Bahrain nabigyan ng 'royal pardon'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 26 09:33 PM

Nabigyan ng royal pardon ang isang overseas Filipino worker matapos sumulat si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa hari ng Bahrain. Read more »

US inmate who spent nearly 40 years on death row is granted parole

Neil Vigdor, The New York Times
Posted at Jun 10 01:24 AM

A Texas inmate who spent nearly 40 years on death row and was at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that exempts people with intellectual disabilities from being executed was granted parole Monday.   Read more »

Mary Jane Veloso pinayagan ng Korte Suprema na tumestigo laban sa mga recruiter

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 12 01:34 AM

Umaasa naman ang kaniyang mga abugado na makatutulong ito para tuluyang maialis siya sa death row. Read more »

SC agrees to Mary Jane Veloso deposition in Indonesia

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 12 04:48 AM

MANILA (UPDATE)—The Supreme Court (SC) has allowed Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia, to testify through deposition in the human trafficking case against her alleged recruiters in Nueva Ecija, in a development that could affect her status on death row. Read more »

US death row inmate challenges January execution

Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters
Posted at Aug 16 05:06 AM

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for one of five federal prisoners scheduled by President Donald Trump's administration for execution have launched a two-pronged legal effort to prevent the government from carrying out the lethal injection slated for January. Read more »

DFA says to seek all remedies to save Pinay in Saudi death row

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 01 12:45 PM

MANILA - The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday said it would seek all possible remedies to save a Filipino woman on death row in Saudi Arabia.  Read more »

OFW saved from death row hugs Duterte

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 07:54 PM

Jennifer Dalquez, a former Overseas Filipino worker in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, met with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang Tuesday, an official said. Read more »

OFW na nakaligtas sa bitay sa UAE, nakauwi na sa Pinas

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 16 12:15 PM

Nakabalik na ng Pilipinas ang OFW na si Jennifer Dalquez na nakaligtas sa parusang bitay sa UAE.  Read more »

OFW saved from Middle East death row comes home

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 02 05:13 PM

The 29-year-old was nothing but grateful to President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration for helping her regain freedom. Read more »

OFW Jennifer Dalquez on being saved from death row: ‘Taos-pusong nagpapasalamat’

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 02 06:01 AM

After spending almost 4 years in an Abu Dhabi prison, acquitted murder suspect Jennifer Dalquez finally boarded her flight to freedom on Thursday night. Read more »