Leo Echegaray

In this Filipino name, the middle name or maternal family name is Pilo and the surname or paternal family name is Echegaray.
Leo Echegaray
Born
Leo Pilo Echegaray

(1960-07-11)July 11, 1960
Manila, Philippines
DiedFebruary 5, 1999(1999-02-05) (aged 38)
New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa, Philippines
Criminal statusExecuted by lethal injection
ConvictionAggravated rape
Criminal penaltyDeath

Leo Pilo Echegaray (11 July 1960 – 5 February 1999) was the first Filipino to be executed since 1976 after the Philippines reinstated the death penalty in 1993. The Free Legal Assistance Group or FLAG lawyer Attorney Te worked to stay his execution due to controversies behind the reinstatement of the death penalty. His death sparked national debate over the legality and morality of capital punishment, which was suspended in March 2000 and abolished in 2006.

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