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
- MARCH 10, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senate President Pro Tempore Blas F
Senate President Pro Tempore Blas F
- MARCH 8, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement urging President Arroyo to ask Congress to abolish the capital punishment
- MARCH 7, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will not impose a...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will not impose a moratorium on the death penalty, and said the issue "is a matter for Congress to determine
- MARCH 6, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the capital...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the capital sentences of two condemned Edgar Maligaya and Rodrigo Calma to life sentences on the recommendation of Justice Secretary Hernando Perez, saving them from their scheduled execution on March 7
- MARCH 5, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
In a poll on whether former President Joseph Estrada...
In a poll on whether former President Joseph Estrada is guilty, 171 respondents of the total 300 interviewed (57%) believed him guilty while only 58 (19
- MARCH 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Judges sent 12 rapists, 10 bribers (see news of 15...
Judges sent 12 rapists, 10 bribers (see news of 15 March) and 8 murderers to death row in March 2001, increasing to 1,720 the tally of Filipinos condemned to death
- FEBRUARY 26, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Renato L
Senator Renato L
- FEBRUARY 13, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo instructed the Department...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo instructed the Department of Foreign Affairs to appeal the case of six overseas Filipino workers who were sentenced to death in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a Palace statement said
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A judge on the central island of Bohol sentenced 12...
A judge on the central island of Bohol sentenced 12 [unidentified] members of a kidnapping gang to death by lethal injection, after finding the 12 guilty of kidnapping a Chinese-Filipino businessman for ransom in 1998
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senate President Aquilino Q
Senate President Aquilino Q
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
PHILIPPINES
January 29, 2001: 12 people sentenced to death for kidnapping, by a a judge on the central island of Bohol.
- JANUARY 24, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Workers group Migrante International sought the intervention...
Workers group Migrante International sought the intervention of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the release and repatriation of some 1,000 overseas Filipino workers allegedly unjustly imprisoned, particularly the death row cases in Saudi Arabia and