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Ople: Cabinet to discuss OFW death row cases this week

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 05:02 PM

Some Cabinet members this week will discuss death row cases involving Filipinos abroad, Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said on Tuesday. Read more »

65 OFWs in death row cases, lawmaker says

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 11:00 PM

Sixty-five Filipinos are in death row cases abroad, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs’ budget sponsor at the House of Representatives, Nueva Ecija Second District Rep. Joseph Gilbert Violago. Read more »

Palace says cautious on commenting over Mary Jane Veloso's case

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 21 02:34 AM

President Marcos is cautious on commenting on the developments regarding the case of Filipina death row convict Mary Jane Veloso, Malacañang said on Wednesday. Read more »

DFA seeking solutions to help Mary Jane Veloso: Palace

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 05 11:08 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) “continues to look for solutions” to help Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina death row convict in Indonesia, a Palace official said on Monday. Read more »

Oldest Texas death row inmate executed

François Picard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 22 03:36 PM

Texas executed its oldest death row inmate, a 78-year-old man convicted of killing a policeman more than 30 years ago during a routine traffic stop. Read more »

Japan executes 3 men on death row, first since 2019

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 21 03:27 PM

Three death-row inmates were hanged Tuesday, in Japan's first executions since December 2019 and first under the Kishida administration. Read more »

Japan death row inmates sue for being notified only hours before penalty

Reuters
Posted at Nov 05 01:28 PM

Two death row inmates in Japan are suing the country over how prisoners are notified only hours before the death penalty is carried out, demanding change and seeking compensation for the impact of the 'inhumane' practice, local media reported. Read more »

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 »