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Capital punishment in the Philippines ( Filipino: Parusang Kamatayan sa Pilipinas) specifically, the death penalty, as a form of state-sponsored repression, was introduced and widely practiced by the Spanish government in the Philippines. A substantial number of Filipino national martyrs like Mariano Gómez, [ 1] José Burgos, [ 2] and Jacinto ...
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. The Free Legal Assistance Group or FLAG lawyer Attorney Te worked to stay his execution due to controversies behind ...
v. t. e. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [ 1][ 2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [ 3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence ...
The first recorded hazing-related death in the Philippines. Died from a burst appendix during an operation. President Ramon Magsaysay created the Castro Committee to investigate the death. The committee found hazing not to be the cause of Albert's death but added that the mauling he received prior to the operation weakened him physically. [2 ...
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former Philippine senator, was assassinated on Sunday, August 21, 1983, on the tarmac of Manila International Airport (now named Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor). A longtime political opponent of President Ferdinand Marcos, Aquino had just landed in his home country after three years of self-imposed ...
Martial law monument in Mehan Garden. Martial law in the Philippines (Filipino: Batas Militar sa Pilipinas) refers to the various historical instances in which the Philippine head of state placed all or part of the country under military control [1] —most prominently [2]: 111 during the administration of Ferdinand Marcos, [3] [4] but also during the Philippines' colonial period, during the ...
Flor Contemplacion was born in San Pablo City in the Laguna province of Luzon, and was the second youngest of ten children. Her father died when she was 7 years old, and due to the increased financial pressure on her rural family she moved to Manila to live with an elder sister when she was 10 years old. Contemplacion dropped out of school aged ...
Garrote. A 1901 execution at the old Bilibid Prison, Manila, Philippines. A garrote ( / ɡəˈrɒt, ɡəˈroʊt / gə-RO (H)T; alternatively spelled as garotte and similar variants) [ 1] or garrote vil ( Spanish: [ɡaˈrote ˈβil]) is a weapon and a method of capital punishment. It consists of a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or ...