Prisoner Related Topics

MANILAgoal11, Philippines The minority leader in the House of Representatives yesterday proposed to the government a prisoner swap program with other countries, under which jailed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) can serve their sentences in the Phi

STOCK PHOTO MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Francis Escudero asked the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to make an accounting of Filipinos incarcerated abroad and explore a treaty on “prisoner swap” for the possible servi

A 57-year-old Florida man who had argued that lethal injection would cause “needless pain and suffering” because he has Parkinson’s disease was executed on Thursday evening after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute request to halt the proceedin