What are the 13 heinous crimes in Philippines?

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2026-04-27 19:30

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  • In Philippine law, 46 crimes are called heinous.
  • For 21 of these crimes, the death penalty is mandatory.
  • For 25 of these crimes, the death penalty may be imposed.
  • There have been proposals to add more crimes to this list.
  • The constitution does not define what are heinous cries but they can be said to cover offenses that are exceedingly or flagrantly bad or evil or those committed with extreme cruelty as to shock the general moral sense, such as treason, parricide, drug- trafficking, murder, robbery with homicide, rape with homicide, killing a person in stages, etc., especially if the crime is committed against children or defenseless people as quoted by Hector de Leon in 1999

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