Editing Execution by firing squad (section)

===Philippines===
{{Main|Capital punishment in the Philippines}}

[[File:Fusilamiento de rizal.jpg|thumb|right|The execution of [[Jose Rizal]]]]

[[Jose Rizal]] was executed by firing squad on the morning of 30 December 1896, in what is now [[Rizal Park]], where his remains have since been placed.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3337273.stm | work=BBC News | title=Philippines 'restores' death penalty | date=December 21, 2003 | access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref>

While in [Cavite] there were 13 people who executed by firing squad. They are known today as 13 martyrs of Cavite.

During the [[Ferdinand Marcos|Marcos]] administration, drug trafficking was punishable by firing-squad execution, as was done to Lim Seng. Execution by firing squad was later replaced by the [[electric chair]], then [[lethal injection]]. On 24 June 2006, President [[Gloria Macapagal Arroyo]] abolished capital punishment through the enactment of Republic Act No. 9346. Existing [[death row]] inmates, who numbered in the thousands, were eventually given [[life sentence]]s or [[reclusion perpetua]] instead.<ref>Sun Star Cebu. 25 June 2006. [http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2006/06/25/news/arroyo.kills.death.law.html Arroyo kills death law] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617190404/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2006/06/25/news/arroyo.kills.death.law.html |date=June 17, 2008 }}</ref>