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FAST FACTS: Death penalty in the world and in
the Philippines
OCT 10, 2022 3:13 PM PHT
MATTHEW G. YUCHING

Global statistics
Amnesty International recorded 579 executions in 18 countries last 2021.
China continues to be the country with the most executions, estimated to
be in the thousands, but exact numbers are kept under lock and key. North
Korea and Vietnam’s number of executions are also being hidden.
Belarus, Japan, and the UAE resumed executions last 2021, while India,
Qatar, and Taiwan did not have any executions that year. The countries of
Sierra Leone, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia have abolished the death penalty.
Papua New Guinea abolished it once more – it had done so in 1974,
reinstated it in 1991, before abolishing it last January 2022.
Death penalty in the Philippines
Capital punishment in the country dates back to the Spanish colonial era. Figures like national
hero Jose Rizal, as well as Filipino Catholic priests Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto
Zamora (GomBurZa), were executed by firing squad and garrote, respectively.
The electric chair was introduced as a method of execution during the period of American
colonialization. After gaining independence in 1946, a total of six presidents have had
executions during their term, namely: Elpidio Quirino (13), Ramon Magsaysay (6), Carlos
Garcia (14), Diosdado Macapagal (2), Ferdinand E. Marcos (32), and Joseph Estrada (7).
The administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the sentences of at least
1,230 death row inmates on April 15, 2006, a number considered by Amnesty International to
be the largest ever. Republic Act 9346 was then signed on June 24, 2006, abolishing the death
penalty in the Philippines. Life imprisonment and reclusion perpetua took its place.
Leo Echegaray was the last person to be served the death penalty in the Philippines in 1999
when he was executed via lethal injection. He was convicted for the rape of 10-year-old
Rodessa Echegaray