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
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Robert Barbers urged Philippine President Gloria...
Senator Robert Barbers urged Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to consider death by "firing squad" as the most effective deterrent to quash the drug menace in the country
- OCTOBER 4, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr
Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr
- OCTOBER 3, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine officials rejected criticism by the human...
Philippine officials rejected criticism by the human rights group Amnesty International (AI) that Manila had put minors on death row
- OCTOBER 1, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine government reiterated that it would...
The Philippine government reiterated that it would still resort to capital punishment on " high-profile drug dealers" despite its announcement of a "moratorium on the death penalty" under the Arroyo administration
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Cebu Regional Trial Court, the Philippines, found...
The Cebu Regional Trial Court, the Philippines, found Marieto Alvizo, Ronald Tumalon and Ronald Caballero guilty of the 1998 kidnapping of Regan King, a young Filipino-Chinese businessman, and sentenced them to death by lethal injection
- AUGUST 5, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Former Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines...
Former Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Oscar Cruz called for the abolition of the death penalty in the country saying that only God had the right to take away one's life
- JULY 31, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC)...
The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) said that Church leaders in the Philippines should not interfere in the anticipated lifting of the moratorium on judicial executions
- JULY 7, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice and human rights committee chairman Senator...
Justice and human rights committee chairman Senator Francis N
- JULY 3, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said through...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said through her spokesman that she agreed to the idea of executing convicted big-time drug traffickers in an effort to curb the drug problem in the country
- JULY 2, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A bill seeking to punish "drug lords" and drug financiers...
A bill seeking to punish "drug lords" and drug financiers with beheading was filed at the House of Representatives
- JULY 2, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Deputy Director...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Deputy Director General Rodolfo Caisip argued for the immediate lifting of the government-imposed moratorium on the execution of more than two dozens drug traffickers held in the Death Row of the Bilibid Prison in
- JULY 2, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Saudi Arabia to spare two female housemaids, from Indonesia and the Philippines, on death row for allegedly killing their female employers