TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Police are investigating the death of a 20-year-old mechanic after a drinking binge here over the weekend. The victim’s mother told police that her son arrived at their house from work at 10 p.m. Friday, July 22, under the influence of liquor. She told police that her...
PARIS, France -- Iran on Saturday carried out its first public execution in over two years, an NGO said, denouncing the practice as "medieval" as concern grows over rising repression in the Islamic republic. Iman Sabzikar, who had been convicted over the murder of a police officer in February 2022...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore hanged a drug trafficker on Friday, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected a last-ditch appeal and despite pleas for clemency. The spate of hangings -- which included the widely criticised execution of a mentally disabled man in...
Politicians and law enforcers who became drug lords should be meted the death penalty as first offenders as they had taken their oaths of office to follow and respect Philippine laws. Senator Robinhood Padilla emphasized this view after coming out in the open supporting the bill of Senator Ronald...
An administrative aide died after falling off a building inside the Malacañang compound on Thursday morning, July 14, the Palace said. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles (Photo courtesy of OPS) Press Secretary Trixie Angeles-Cruz said in a press briefing that Mario Castro, an administrative...
Actor and director Phillip Lazaro has died. This was announced by GMA Network in a social media post Monday. It read: "Phillip Lazaro, actor and director, dies. Rest in peace." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf24ywspgPx/ Phillip's family is yet to issue a statement about his passing. On Phillip's...
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said he is confident that the country’s judiciary has sufficient safeguards to ensure it can make an accurate determination of guilt in trials that would the require death penalty. Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa (Senate PRIB) Dela Rosa, who has been...
If given the chance, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa said he will ask President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to certify the bill seeking the imposition of the death penalty for high-level drug traffickers as urgent. Senator Ronald "Bato" de la Rosa “Given the chance, I will do it. Kung...
Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa has renewed his push for the imposition of the death penalty on convicted high-level drug traffickers in the 19th Congress. The death penalty bill is among the first 20 bills that dela Rosa filed early this week at the Senate. Last June, Dela Rosa, who was at the...
EAST LONDON, South Africa -- At least 21 teenagers died over the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, officials said Sunday. Forensic personel carry a body out of a township pub in South Africa's southern city of East London on June 26, 2022, after 20 teenagers died. At...
Anti-death penalty advocates were called on by a Catholic bishop to “exert more efforts” to change the views of pro-death penalty Filipinos. (Photo courtesy of Pixabay) Bishop Joel Baylon, the head of the Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care, lamented that many Filipinos still see the...
Maria Elena "Balsy" Aquino-Cruz, eldest sister of former President Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III, on Friday reiterated her late brother's message to the Filipino people to keep their faith amid challenging times. In her speech during the commemoration of Aquino's 1st death anniversary at the Church...
