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Overseas Filipinos and the death penalty: Cases that made headlines
This is not the first time the country has mourned the execution of a fellow Filipino abroad

Executed OFW’s family to get blood money with donors’ approval
Senator Cynthia Villar says she will work to provide scholarship to the two children left behind by Joselito Zapanta who was beheaded in Saudi Arabia

Should blood money for executed OFW be given to his family?
Where should the P23 million blood money raised for executed OFW Joselito Zapanta go?

Villar seeks probe into P23-M blood money raised for OFW
UPDATED Senator Cynthia Villar asks: should Joselito Zapanta s family be given the amount that government raised in the attempt to save his life in Saudi Arabia?

VLOG: PH gov't exhausted all means to save Joselito Zapanta – Binay
Zapanta s family wasn t able to raise the blood money demanded by Saudi Arabia

Binay: No gov’t shortcomings in effort to save Joselito Zapanta
UPDATED The Vice President wants to give part of the blood money to the bereaved family of the OFW but Joselito Zapanta s mother asks what s the use?

35-year-old Filipino executed in Saudi Arabia
2nd UPDATE A father of two Joselito Lidasan Zapanta is executed in Saudi Arabia because of a case of murder with robbery

Aquino forms committee on OFWs needing blood money
The permanent body consists of the Vice President the Executive Secretary and the secretaries of justice foreign affairs budget health labor and social welfare
PH still hopes to save convict on Saudi death row
The government is asking the Sudanese ambassador in Saudi Arabia to help convince the family of the landlord killed by Joselito Zapanta in a rental dispute in 2009 to extend the deadline for the payment of blood money DFA said
PH asks for money to save Pinoy in Saudi death row
Saudi Arabia extends anew the deadline for the payment of blood money for the release of Joselito Zapanta
Filipino on Saudi death row wins short reprieve
Saudi s King grants a short reprieve to laborer Joselito Zapanta giving him 3 months to raise blood money
P55-M to save OFW on death row
An OFW will be executed in Saudi unless his family can raise P55 M in blood money