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
- JANUARY 29, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court, the Philippines,...
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court, the Philippines, sentenced eight men, including two Chinese, to death by lethal injection for abducting four Chinese children six years ago
- JANUARY 28, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines Supreme Court granted a stay on the...
The Philippines Supreme Court granted a stay on the executions of two convicted kidnappers who were due to be executed on January 30 in the first execution in the country in four years
- JANUARY 22, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Marivic Genosa, a woman jailed and convicted for the...
Marivic Genosa, a woman jailed and convicted for the murder of her husband, had her death sentence commuted to six years imprisonment by the Philippine's Supreme Court due to "mitigating circumstances"
- JANUARY 20, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines' Supreme Court agreed to consider new...
The Philippines' Supreme Court agreed to consider new evidence that could prove the innocence of Roberto Lara and Roderick Licayan, two men on death row who were convicted of kidnapping and were scheduled for execution on January 30
- JANUARY 19, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
An appeal from Pope John Paul II would not stop the...
An appeal from Pope John Paul II would not stop the Philippine government from carrying out the scheduled execution of two convicts this month, President Gloria Arroyo's spokesman, Ignacio Bunye, said
- JANUARY 18, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Santiago, a member of the Philippine parliament...
Joseph Santiago, a member of the Philippine parliament and an anti-death penalty crusader in the country, urged church leaders to seek the intervention of Pope John Paul II to stop the scheduled execution of Roberto Lara and Roderick Licayan, two convicte
- JANUARY 16, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Lawmakers were urging President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo...
Lawmakers were urging President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to suspend the execution by lethal injection of convicted kidnappers Robert Lara and Roderick Licayan on January 30, following the arrest of two key suspects in the original kidnapping case
- JANUARY 15, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union called on President Gloria Arroyo...
The European Union called on President Gloria Arroyo toabolish capital punishment as the Philippines prepared for its firstexecutions since a moratorium on them was lifted in December 2003
- JANUARY 15, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union called on President Gloria Arroyo...
The European Union called on President Gloria Arroyo toabolish capital punishment as the Philippines prepared for its firstexecutions since a moratorium on them was lifted in December 2003
- JANUARY 12, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was not inclined...
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was not inclined to heed the request of Public Attorney's Office (PAO) to stay the executions of Roberto Lara and Roderick Licayan, two convicted kidnappers who were scheduled to die via lethal injection on January 30, Pr
- JANUARY 9, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she may restore...
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she may restore the moratorium on the death penalty should the execution of two death row convicts at the end of January serve its purpose of teaching kidnap-for-ransom groups a lesson and deterring crime
- JANUARY 6, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines was due to execute its first convicts...
The Philippines was due to execute its first convicts in January since lifting a nearly four-year moratorium on the death penalty, Bureau of Corrections chief Dionisio Santiago said