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Capital punishment was first abolished in the Philippines in 1987 through changes to the Constitution; it was the first country in Asia to abolish capital punishment. It was reinstated in December 1993 through Republic Act No. 7659, which allowed capital punishment for "heinous crimes" following claims of a national crime spree. In 1999 the lethal injection was approved as the method of execution through Republic Act No. 8177. On March 24, 2000 President Joseph Estrada called for a moratorium on executions to honour the birth of Christ;^[1] executions were resumed a year later. Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the State as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offenses. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Republic Acts are laws in the Philippines, created by the Congress and signed by the president. ... Lethal injection involves injecting a person with fatal doses of drugs to cause death. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... José Marcelo Ejército a. ...

Capital punishment was reabolished through Republic Act No. 9346, which was signed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on June 24, 2006. The bill followed a vote held in Congress earlier in the same month which overwhelmingly supported that the practice be abolished.^[2] The penalties of life imprisonment and reclusion perpetua (indeterminate sentence, 30-year minimum) replaced the death penalty.^[3] The sentences of the 1,230 death row inmates were commuted to life imprisonment in April, in what Amnesty International believes to be the "largest ever commutation of death sentences".^[4] Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is the 14th and current president of the Philippines. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Life imprisonment is a term used for a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment. ... Reclusion perpetua (Spanish: reclusión perpetua, from Latin: reclusio perpetua) is a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment in the Philippines. ... Death Row is a term used in some countries, including the United States, which refers to the section of a prison that houses individuals awaiting execution. ... Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...

See also

• Paco Larrañaga

On February 3, 2004, the Philippine Supreme Court sentenced to death by lethal injection Spanish-Filipino citizen Francisco Juan Paco Larrañaga and six others for kidnapping and murdering Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong on July 16, 1997 in Cebu City . ...

References

1. ^ Amnesty International. Death Penalty News March 2000
2. ^ Jansen, Jamie. June 6, 2006 Philippines Congress votes to end capital punishment, The Jurist
3. ^ Sun Star Cebu. 25 June, 2006. Arroyo kills death law
4. ^ Amnesty International, April 19 2006 Philippines: Largest ever commutation of death sentences

• Lamban, S. 2000. Death Penalty in the Philippines