Joselito Zapanta, the overseas Filipino workers (OFW) on death row in
Saudi Arabia, may be executed in January if his family will not be able
to raise the blood money needed to save him.
This was according
to Vice President Jejomar Binay, who renewed his appeal to Filipinos to
contribute to the amount raised by the Philippine government, which
currently stands at SR520,831 (P6,133,722).
“I would like to take
this opportunity to appeal to our kababayans as the victim’s family is
now becoming insistent,” said Binay, the presidential adviser on OFW
concerns, in a statement Tuesday.
“We fear that the execution may happen in January if the blood money is not paid,” he added.
Zapanta
was sentenced to death in 2009 for killing his Sudanese landlord
allegedly out of self-defense. He was given reprieve several times in
the past, once in November of last year, and another in March of this year.
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