MANILA, Philippines - Last March 30, drug mules Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, 32; Ramon Credo, 42; and Elizabeth Batain, 38, were executed in Xiamen and Shenzhen. Villanueva was convicted for smuggling 4,110 grams of heroin on Dec. 24, 2008. Credo, four days later was likewise convicted for smuggling a slightly bigger amount of heroin. Batain was sentenced to death for smuggling 6,800 grams of heroin on May 24, 2008.
They were the first to be executed among the 72 Filipinos on death row in China due to drug-related cases, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
On Dec. 8, another unidentified male Filipino may become the fourth Filipino to be executed in China this year. The 35-year old Filipino was convicted for smuggling 1.495 kilos of heroin into China from Malaysia on Sept. 13, 2008.