It’s not over
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
His presence in China delayed the original execution of the three Filipino drug mules in China. But since even at his most hopeful, Vice President Jejomar Binay did not say anything about the trio’s commutation of punishment from death to life imprisonment, I’m not surprised to hear about Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain facing a firing squad on March 30.
I don’t want this to happen. I grieve that this is going to happen.
Still, sed lex, dura lex, as it goes in Latin. No matter the law is harsh, it has to be upheld, it has to be applied. Under Chinese laws, the smuggling of illegal drugs is punishable by death. It can’t be said China is downright cruel, it is lenient toward those apprehended with less than 50 grams, of, say, heroin. You’re caught with more than that, and everything else hits the fan.
Batain was arrested first, with 6,800 grams of heroin, on May 24, 2008, in Shenzen. Ordinario-Villanueva was next, with 4,110 grams of the same on Dec. 24, 2008, in Xiamen. Credo, with 4,113 grams again of heroin, four days later, on Dec. 28, also in Xiamen..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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