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  1. Died. 1931. Nationality. German. Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) was a German zoologist, primarily a malacologist, a scientist who studies mollusks . Illustration of the long-armed squid, Chiroteuthis veranyi ( Férussac, 1835), from G.J. Pfeffer (1912). Pfeffer was born in Berlin. In 1887 he became curator of the Hamburg Museum of Natural ...

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  2. Capital punishment opponents expect a steep battle to prevent President Rodrigo Duterte from reimposing the death penalty, as he renews calls for the law as part of a "drug war" that has already ...

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  4. May 17, 2016 · Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:46 AM May 17, 2016. THE PHILIPPINES abolished capital punishment in June 2006 when then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Republic Act No. 9346, also known as ...

  5. As a result, five of the six abolitionist states reinstated their death penalty by 1920. (Bedau, 1997 and Bohm, 1999) In 1924, the use of cyanide gas was introduced, as Nevada sought a more humane way of executing its inmates. Gee Jon was the first person executed by lethal gas. The state tried to pump cyanide gas into Jon’s cell while he ...

  6. In 1987 the Philippines set an historic precedent by becoming the first Asian country in modern times to abolish the death penalty for all crimes. However, the death penalty was reintroduced in the Philippines in late 1993 for 46 different offences. Executions resumed in 1999 until former President Estrada in 2000 announced a moratorium on ...

  7. Oct 10, 2022 · Republic Act 9346 was then signed on June 24, 2006, abolishing the death penalty in the Philippines. Life imprisonment and reclusion perpetua took its place. Leo Echegaray was the last person to ...

  8. Aug 6, 2020 · In 2007, the Philippines ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which requires countries to abolish the death penalty.