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Leo Pilo Echegaray (11 July 1960 – 5 February 1999) was the first Filipino to be executed after the reinstatement of the death penalty in the Philippines in 1993, some 23 years after the last judicial execution was carried out.
Feb 5, 2014 · Leo Echegaray, destined to become the first person to meet such a fate in the Philippines, was a house painter convicted of raping his daughter or stepdaughter. (Despite Rodessa’s surname, her mother and Leo never married.
Aug 11, 2020 · On Aug. 1, 1994, Leo Echegaray was arraigned by the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City for the crime of rape of his 10-year old daughter Rodessa. The prosecution presented Rodessa, her grandmother Asuncion Rivera and the medico-legal officer.
Feb 5, 1999 · Convicted rapist Leo Echegaray has been put to death in the Philippines - the country's first execution in more than two decades. The BBC's Simon Ingram: A final vigil was held for the condemned...
On June 25, 1996, this Court affirmed [1] the conviction of petitioner Leo Echegaray y Pilo for the crime of rape of the 10 year-old daughter of his common-law spouse and the imposition upon him of the death penalty for the said crime.
Apr 24, 2024 · Leo Echegaray was convicted of raping the 10-year-old daughter of his common-law spouse, and the Supreme Court of the Philippines affirmed his conviction and the imposition of the death penalty by lethal injection under Republic Act No. 7659.
Apr 30, 2016 · MANILA, Philippines – Convicted rapist Leo Echegaray woke up on the morning of Friday, Feb. 5, 1999 feeling anxious yet defiant. It was, after all, his last day on Earth as he was to be...
Feb 24, 2024 · Echegaray vs. Secretary of Justice: The Pivotal Case on the Execution of a Death Convict in the Philippines. ### Facts. Leo Echegaray, a death row convict, filed a petition questioning the constitutionality of R.A. No. 8177, or the Lethal Injection Law, and its implementing rules and regulations.
Jan 5, 1999 · A CHILD RAPIST escaped death by lethal injection with three hours to spare yesterday when the Philippines supreme court postponed his execution. Leo Echegaray, 38, would have been the first man...
LEO ECHEGARAY y PILO, accused-appellant. PER CURIAM: On June 25, 1996, we rendered our decision in the instant case affirming the conviction of the accused-appellant for the crime of raping his ten-year old daughter.
