{"id":47670,"date":"2015-04-24T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=47670"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T01:42:32","slug":"pinay-on-death-row-ready-to-face-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/24\/pinay-on-death-row-ready-to-face-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinay on death row ready to face execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_175224341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23197\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_175224341-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_175224341\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_175224341-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_175224341.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">MANILA &#8212; Filipino drug convict Mary Jane Veloso said she has fully accepted her fate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">&#8220;Huwag kayo mag-alala sa akin kasi alam ko may magandang plano ang Diyos sa ating lahat. Hindi ako natatakot na mangyari sa akin ito kasi kung ang Diyos, ito ang kagustuhan niya, tatanggapin ko ng buong puso,&#8221; Mary Jane\u00a0told her sister Maritess Veloso on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">(Don&#8217;t worry about me because I know that God has better plans for me. I am not afraid that this will happen to me because if God wills this, I will accept this with all my heart.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">Mary Jane, who is now facing execution by firing squad said that what worries her more is what will happen to her family when she&#8217;s gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">&#8220;Ang iniisip ko,kung anong mangyayari sa inyo kung wala na ako.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">(What I&#8217;m worried about is what will happen to all of you when I&#8217;m gone.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">Lawyers from various groups including Migrante and the National union of the People&#8217;s Lawyers have been helping to strengthen the case&#8217;s second judicial review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">The Department of Foreign Affairs also said that the efforts to save Mary Jane&#8217;s life will continue.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy topamax online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/topamax.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/topamax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">&#8220;We are also doing two approaches: the legal, which is the filing of the appeal for judicial review and the diplomatic, and the President has written for the third time asking for clemency,&#8221; Foreign Affairs spokesperson Assistant Secretary Charles Jose said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">Mary Jane&#8217;s sister Maritess meanwhile told ABS-CBN News while they are thankful of the government&#8217;s efforts in solving her case, they believe that the government should have taken action as early as April 2010 when Mary Jane was arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">They believe that the sentence should not have been carried out if the government acted the moment Mary Jane was arrested and not several months later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">&#8220;Before kasi hindi kami satisfied, dami nilang pagkukulang. Nung nahuli si Mary Jane April 2010, pumasok sila December 2010\u2026pwede sana since day 1 umapela sila para siguro hindi ganiton yun desisyon,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #141412;\">(We were not really satisfied before. They have a lot of shortcomings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy antabuse online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/antabuse.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/antabuse.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Mary Jane was arrested April 2010, they took actions, December 2010. They should have appealed the case on the first day and this decision should not have been carried out.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Filipino drug convict Mary Jane Veloso said she has fully accepted her fate.\u00a0 &#8220;Huwag kayo mag-alala sa akin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283038,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47670\/revisions\/283038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}