Philippines
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The leader of Crusade Against Violence, Carina Agarao,...
- News items in the archive
- 556
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Philippines is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 556 news items on Philippines, from 1999 to today.
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- JANUARY 20, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A spokesman for newly-installed Philippines president...
A spokesman for newly-installed Philippines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said that Philippines leader Joseph Estrada faces the death penalty on corruption charges
- JANUARY 17, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved...
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved from execution in a decision issued by the Ras Al Khaima court
- JANUARY 5, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) executed commanders,...
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) executed commanders, Kagui Gani Abdul and Dong Abdul, in Mamasapano, as the two were about to meet government emissaries working out their return to the fold of the law
- JANUARY 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Cases decided by the Supreme Court have to be reviewed...
Cases decided by the Supreme Court have to be reviewed by the Presidential Conscience Committee, which was created by former President Joseph Estrada
- JANUARY 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Under Philippine law, all death sentences have to be...
Under Philippine law, all death sentences have to be reviewed by the Supreme Court
- JANUARY 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine penal code says defendants over the...
The Philippine penal code says defendants over the age of 70 are exempted from capital punishment
- JANUARY 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A new Constitution abolished the death penalty in 1987,...
A new Constitution abolished the death penalty in 1987, but gave Congress the option of restoring it for "heinous" crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Dangerous Drugs Act provides the maximum penalty...
The Dangerous Drugs Act provides the maximum penalty of death on those found in possession of the following quantities: 40 grams or more of opium; 40 grams or more of morphine; 200 grams or more of shabu; 40 grams of heroin; 750 grams or more of marijuana
- JANUARY 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Under legislation passed in 1994, seven people have...
Under legislation passed in 1994, seven people have been executed by lethal injection for various "heinous crimes
- DECEMBER 10, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine President Joseph Estrada, threatened with...
Philippine President Joseph Estrada, threatened with removal from office for alleged corruption, ordered all death sentences affirmed by the Supreme Court to be commuted to life imprisonment
- DECEMBER 7, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
From 1995 to 1999 the Court accelerated its review...
From 1995 to 1999 the Court accelerated its review of capital cases
- NOVEMBER 16, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Four Philippine citizens were executed in Mecca (Saudi...
Four Philippine citizens were executed in Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive...
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive against international and domestic terrorists was filed in the Senate
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The House of Representatives proposed a bill which...
The House of Representatives proposed a bill which advocated reducing the amount of illegal drugs found on a person in order to be eligible for the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
There were reports that at least 600 civilians had...
There were reports that at least 600 civilians had been killed or injured after President Estrada ordered thousands of troops to launch an attack on the bases of the armed Islamic separatist group Abu Sayyaf on the southern Philippine island of Jolo
- AUGUST 17, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Inquiries were launched after TV footage contradicted...
Inquiries were launched after TV footage contradicted claims that government forces acted in self-defence in a jungle shootout involving 16 members of a religious cult
- AUGUST 9, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Kalinaw Mindanao came out with a comprehensive report...
Kalinaw Mindanao came out with a comprehensive report on its fact-finding, relief and medical mission in the war-torn areas of Central and Western Mindanao
- JULY 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that...
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that the draft bill offering reduced sentences to death-row convicts who donate their kidneys sounded "creative" but was morally defective
- JUNE 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Mariano Santiago, chairman of the Kidney Patient Association...
Mariano Santiago, chairman of the Kidney Patient Association of the Philippines (KPAP) board of trustees, said his group would ask the House of Representatives to allow death row inmates and other convicts to donate their organs in exchange for commutatio
- JUNE 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement...
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement regarding the transfer of Filipino and British nationals serving prison sentences in the two countries
- JUNE 20, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned...
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned by the House committee on human rights, reported that two Moro farmers, Kole Jalodin and Nasser Tambag, were summarily executed at the height of military offensives in Pikit
- MAY 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia...
A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia for attempted murder
- MAY 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice Secretary Artemio G
Justice Secretary Artemio G
- MAY 23, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that...
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that would commute a death sentence to life imprisonment if the guilty person agreed to donate an organ for transplant
- MAY 18, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
- MAY 15, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign...
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to look into the cases of three female Filipino workers facing execution overseas, for offences committed in their host countries
- MAY 4, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and...
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and other vigilante groups in Mindanao were responsible for human rights abuses, including hostage-taking and killings
- APRIL 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippines abstained from the resolution on the death...
Philippines abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Loren Legarda asked for the commutation of...
Senator Loren Legarda asked for the commutation of the death sentences of 13 convicts who are more than 70 years old, or about to turn 70 this year, saying the death penalty law precludes the execution of convicts over 70 for humanitarian reasons
- APRIL 13, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Estrada warned Islamic rebels holding...
President Joseph Estrada warned Islamic rebels holding 31 hostages that he would show no mercy if any of the captives were harmed