ABS-CBN's Showtime offered a prayer for the three Filipino drug couriers executed in China Monday morning of March 30, 2011. Kim Atienza led the prayer with the hosts of the show standing at the center of the stage.
After the prayer, Kuya Kim asked everyone to observe a minute of silence and pray for the souls of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo, and Elizabeth Batain who were all convicted of drug trafficking and executed earlier via lethal injection.
Malacañang Palace confirmed the execution via Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda.
"The nation sympathized with the families of the condemned, sharing their sense of looming loss. We sympathize with these families now. Their deaths are a vivid lesson in the tragic toll the drug trade takes on entire families," Lacierda said.
The 3 were arrested carrying packages of at least 4 kilograms of heroin in 2008. They were convicted and sentenced death penalty in 2009.
Despite numerous pleas by the Philippine government to China, the People's Republic seemed unmoved and determined to carry out its law.
To the families of the condemned, the blogger extends his condolences. It's not easy to lose a loved one, especially on the terms that they went through. But may what happened inspire us more to value life, and may we learn from it as well.
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