On the 30th of March this year, three Filipinos (Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain) were executed through lethal injection in China. It had been two months since the issue was buried because of the various national issues being dealt with everyday. But for the families that were affected by this loss, it’s an issue that will never be forgotten. Well, what’s past is past and certainly, there is nothing that one can do to bring back the loss lives. But take a look at the blind side of the issue, why did this happen?
Well, sure the government did their utmost effort the save the lives of these people. Vice President Binay’s attempts to make the verdict a little less fatal were shown. But why does it have to be an execution? To think that a LOT of Chinese people were caught doing illegal business here in the Philippines. This is the sad yet wonderful truth: Philippine Government, although it holds and follows a lot of laws, don’t believe in putting death as the ultimate judgment for the people caught guilty with their acts. Jesus is still the Greatest Judge. The Chinese Government, on the other hand, might be believing other principles. The guilty will be judged according to the act done and there is no way that their human law will be broken.
But what if the situation was different? What if three Chinese drug mules were caught red-handed and the Philippine Government decided to put death sentences upon the three suspects. What would the Chinese government do? Would they do the same effort the way Vice President Binay did to save the three Filipinos? If the same situation happens, surely the administration here will have the heart to forgive the three suspects and give a more moral sentence than death penalty.
Had the Philippines became a lot stricter when it comes to letting people come in and out of the country, other nationalities will have half the mind in having illegal transactions here. If so, Filipinos will not be used as drug mules and the executed Filipinos would not have been sentenced to their unfortunate demise. But of course, fixing a system is not that easy and it takes a really long time. Let’s just hope that the other pending drug muling cases in China, where a lot of Filipinos are just “waiting” for their scheduled death sentences, will not come to a devastating end. Well, we could only pray for a better solution in this chain of problems.