Philippines
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- February 11, 1987
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- mixed legal system of Anglo-Saxon, Islamic, common law, customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate (Senado) and House of Representatives (Kapulungan Ng Mga Kinatawan)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (judges appointed for four years by the President on the recommendation of the Council of Judges and Lawyers); Court of Appeals
RELIGIONS
83% Catholics, 9% Protestants, 5% Muslims, 3% Buddhists, and other minorities
From the country
- DECEMBER 12, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
a Filipino expatriate worker was spared beheading in Saudi Arabia
a Filipino expatriate worker was spared beheading in Saudi Arabia
- NOVEMBER 24, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
a judge of the Valenzuela City Regional Trial Court (RTC), the Philippines, sentenced Dima Montanir and Ronald Norva to death
a judge of the Valenzuela City Regional Trial Court (RTC), the Philippines, sentenced Dima Montanir and Ronald Norva to death
- NOVEMBER 8, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
three convicts scheduled to die before the end of the year gained a temporary stay
three convicts scheduled to die before the end of the year gained a temporary stay
- OCTOBER 14, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippines Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez claimed...
Philippines Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez claimed there wasn't a single child on death row at the National Bilibid Prisons
- OCTOBER 11, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Catholic bishops of the Philippines renewed their...
The Catholic bishops of the Philippines renewed their appeal to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to abolish the death penalty
- OCTOBER 8, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Supreme Court reaffirmed the death sentence...
The Philippine Supreme Court reaffirmed the death sentence on Gerry H
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A group of lawmakers in the Philippines pledged to...
A group of lawmakers in the Philippines pledged to move for the speedy enactment of measures to repeal the Death Penalty Law
- AUGUST 13, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Seventeen members of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf...
Seventeen members of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group were sentenced to death for kidnapping nurses from a hospital in the southern Philippines three years ago
- AUGUST 4, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Department of Justice (DoJ) would provide...
The Philippine Department of Justice (DoJ) would provide assistance in the commutation of sentences of minors convicted and sentenced to death
- JULY 25, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that there were seven juvenile convicts...
It was reported that there were seven juvenile convicts on death row at the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa, the Philippines, all of them living in misery in cramped cells and denied of sunlight
- JULY 7, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Ten death row inmates were scheduled to be executed...
Ten death row inmates were scheduled to be executed in September, Philippine acting Justice Secretary Merceditas Gutierrez said
- JUNE 10, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo gave a 90-day reprieve...
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo gave a 90-day reprieve to six convicted rapists who were scheduled to be executed in June, her spokesman Ignacio Bunye said