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[2/2] PEOPLE vs Elpedio Mercado

[2/2] THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ELPEDIO MERCADO y HERNANDO and AURELIO ACEBRON y ADORA, accused-appellants.

G.R. No. 116239 | 2000-11-29

In the subsequent case of Echagaray vs. Secretary of Justice, the Court sustained the constitutionality of Republic Act No. 8177, providing for death by lethal injection against claims that death by lethal injection was cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment, and that the law violated treaty obligations. Petitioner in that case argued that death lethal injection constituted cruel, degrading, and inhuman punishment because: (1) Republic Act No. 8177 and its implementing rules did not fix either the date of execution of the convict of the drug to be administered, and the procedure in administering drug(s) to the convict; (2) Republic Act No....