[Deathpenalty]death penalty news-----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

July 7


PHILIPPINES:

10 inmates to be executed in September


10 death row inmates are scheduled to be executed in September, acting
Justice Secretary Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez said on Wednesday.

She said the prisoners were convicted of rape or rape with homicide.

They will be executed by lethal injection unless President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo gives them a reprieve, Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez said among those scheduled to die were the 6 inmates who were
given reprieves in June.

Mrs. Arroyo had imposed a moratorium on state executions due to pressure
from the Catholic Church. However, she changed her mind after lobbying
from the Chinese-Filipino community and said that kidnappers and drug
dealers would be executed.

(source: Inquirer News Service)