‘Let’s respect rule of law’ of other countries — SC 04/02/2011

‘Let’s respect rule of law’ of other countries — SC

04/02/2011
The Supreme Court (SC) has stressed the sovereign legal basis in the continuing debate on why the three Filipino drug convicts were executed in China despite pleas for their lives for humanitarian reasons.

“We have to respect the rule of law” in other places, said lawyer Jose Midas Marquez, spokesman and administrator of the Supreme Court, which is now in summer sessions in Baguio City.

Marquez was referring to Elizabeth Batain, Sally Villanueva and Ramon Credo who were executed on March 30 for the crime of heroin smuggling..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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