This video was taken when Echegaray was about to be executed.

In here,
President Erap, who was the President back then gave an Nation-wide message
about why he allowed such execution.

Veloso case. When she was granted clemency minutes before her execution.

From: DATABLOG.
Despite more countries abolishing the death penalty, its practice remains
commonplace.
China, together with Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the US (the only G7 country to
still execute people) carried out the most executions the year prior to 2012.
Excluding China, the report says:
At least 1,722 people were sentenced to death in 58 countries in 2012. This is a
decrease from 2011, when at least 1,923 people were known to have been

This is now the map of Death Penalty in 2016 as compared with that of the
previous years which I have shown earlier.
FROM: THE TELEGRAPH
Mapped: The 58 countries still have the death penalty
As the map shows, every other European country has abolished it (Russia has
abolished it in practice, and has not executed anyone since 1996). But in Belarus often dubbed "Europe's last dictatorship" - it continues, with 12 executions taking
place in the last seven years and more than 200 since 1990.

There are nine common methods of execution which include: hanging,

shooting by firing squad, shooting, beheading, lethal injection, stoning, gas
chamber, electrocution, and falling from an unknown height. The most common
method authorized by law is hanging, with sixty countries authorizing this
practice, while the least common methods include electrocution, gas
chamber, and falling from an unknown height.
The United States is the only country to authorize both electrocution and gas
chamber and Iran is the only country to authorize pushing individuals from
an unknown height. Additionally, the method of execution for Maldives is
unknown and Sudan uses a method which calls for retributive sentences to
be carried out in the same manner in which the offender caused death.

What does UN UDHR have to say about Death Penalty?

Article 3 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that Everyone
has the right to life, liberty and security of person. According to Article 6 of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right to life is to be
protected by law. The same Article prohibits states from arbitrarily depriving
persons of their lives.
The death penalty
As yet, there is no general prohibition against the death penalty in international
law. There are, however, a number of restrictions on its application and an

So how did it come about in the Philippines?

Let us now see its timeline even before Marcos came to seat as the President.
Filipinos who were meted the death penalty include Magat Salamat (1587); the
native clergies Gomez, Burgos and Zamora who were garroted in 1872; and Dr.
Jose Rizal, executed on December 30, 1896. All of them are now enshrined as
heroes.

Macario Sakay was one of those sentenced to die for leading a resistance group.
He was sentenced to die by public hanging.