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        "id": 1093761,
        "msgid": "rp-official-wants-stop-to-executions-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-03-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "RP official wants stop to executions",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "RP official wants stop to executions MANILA (AFP): The justice secretary of the Philippines, Hernando Perez, pronouncing himself against the death penalty, said on Wednesday he would block practically all judicial executions for as long as he was in charge of the country's prisons. President Gloria Arroyo commuted the sentences of two condemned men on Tuesday on the recommendation of Perez.",
        "content": "<p>RP official wants stop to executions<\/p>\n<p>MANILA (AFP): The justice secretary of the Philippines,<br>\nHernando Perez, pronouncing himself against the death penalty,<br>\nsaid on Wednesday he would block practically all judicial<br>\nexecutions for as long as he was in charge of the country's<br>\nprisons.<\/p>\n<p>President Gloria Arroyo commuted the sentences of two<br>\ncondemned men on Tuesday on the recommendation of Perez.<\/p>\n<p>Perez revealed the two, Edgar Maligaya and Rodrigo Calma, were<br>\ndue to have been put to death by lethal injection next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if this was the policy of President Arroyo, Perez said:<br>\n\"No, it's just my feeling. I would not want to see anybody die.\"<\/p>\n<p>There are 1,690 convicts on death row in the Philippines, more<br>\nthan half of them for aggravated rape. The rest were condemned<br>\nfor kidnapping, murder and drug trafficking.<\/p>",
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