source: abs-cbnnews
MANILA, Philippines - Families of the 3 Filipinos executed on Wednesday morning in China are not alone in mourning their deaths.
Through social networking sites such as Twitter, Filipino netizens sent words of condolence and sympathy to the families of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain, who were executed via lethal injection in China on the morning of March 30.
"Three Pinoys who had been sentenced to death penalty in China now dead. :( Condolence to the family. It's a sad news for the whole nation," one of them said.
Another tweeted: "Let us pause for a while and #pray for the 3 Filipinos who were given death sentence in China."
This Twitter user said, "Our 3 OFWs know the consequence of what they did. And death penalty is the consequence in China. Yet, my prayers go with them."
Hours before the scheduled execution, the Twitterverse was filled with prayers for Villanueva, Credo and Batain as Filipinos across the globe hoped for a miracle to save them from China's death penalty.
The 3 Filipinos were arrested separately in 2008 for carrying packages with at least 4 kilograms of heroin, and were convicted and sentenced in 2009. Smuggling of more than 50 grams of heroin and other drugs is punishable by death in China.
The government here in the Philippines, where the death penalty has been abolished, had made several efforts to stop the execution but only managed to delay it by a month.
More than 200 Filipinos have been detained in China since 2006.
Before Wednesday's exeuctions, 72 were on death row for drug trafficking, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
Thirty-eight of them had life sentences, nearly 80 were serving 15-year jail terms, while 35 cases were still being heard.
Of the 72 cases on death row, only 6 cases had reached China's Supreme Court. Two of them had been overturned, 3 had been affirmed, while one was still being reviewed.
source: abs-cbnnews
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