OFW’s online pleas turn to joy as he is spared from death
By Tonette Orejas
Overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza is profuse with gratitude after being spared from the death row through the mercy of the king of Saudi Arabia.
Overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza is profuse with gratitude after being spared from the death row through the mercy of the king of Saudi Arabia.
A Filipina was sentenced to death recently for transporting illegal drugs to Vietnam. Amodia Teresa Palacio is just one of several Filipinas today who are facing the death penalty overseas because of drug smuggling.
The Philippine Embassy in Malaysia on Friday said that the death penalty imposed on a Filipino woman for drug trafficking by a Kuala Lumpur court was on appeal and that the sentence would not be carried out anytime soon.
Philippine officials in Riyadh on Wednesday clarified that overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza, who has been languishing for 11 years on death row in Saudi Arabia, is not yet spared from the death penalty.
On orders of Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is exerting its “best efforts” for the commutation of over 80 death-penalty cases involving overseas Filipino workers.
China no longer responded to President Benigno Aquino’s letter asking for the commutation of sentence of the Filipino convicted of drug trafficking and executed on Thursday.
The Philippine government on Wednesday exhorted Filipinos to pray for a “miracle” for a Filipino who is scheduled to be executed Thursday in China on drug trafficking charges.
Malacañang said on Sunday it respected China’s refusal to accept any visit from Vice President Jejomar Binay but stressed that it was not giving up in its bid to appeal for the life of a convicted Filipino drug trafficker set to be executed this week.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is hunting down the recruiter of a 35-year-old Filipino drug courier sentenced to die in China next week.
The Catholic Church will offer Masses on Sunday for a convicted Filipino drug trafficker facing execution in China next week.
Amnesty International has joined calls for China to stop the scheduled December 8 execution of a Filipino convicted of drug trafficking, and to remove “non-lethal offenses” from a list of crimes punishable by death in China.
