Ramon Credo, Sally Ordinario, and Elizabeth Batain were executed in China after being convicted of drug trafficking. Fellow Filipinos, offered their deepest sympathies to the families that they have left behind.
The two women and one man were arrested separately carrying packages containing at least 4kg (8lb) of the drug.
They were allowed to see their families before their executions.
Elizabeth Batain, 38 years old, was executed at a prison in the southern city of Shenzhen.
Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, 32 years old, and Ramon Credo, 42 years old, were put to death in the port city of Xiamen.
They were the first Filipinos to be executed in China for drug trafficking,Philippine officials said.
President Noynoy Aquino offered his deepest sympathies to the families of the Filipinos who were executed in China. President Aquino said that his administration pleaded with the Chinese government to commute the death sentences to life imprisonment consistent with the laws and values of our country.
Unfortunately, the Peoples Republic of China did not agree, and we must respect their legal processes," he said.
However, President Aquino ask Filipino people not to allow the situation not to affect the historic friendship between Philippines and China.
According to President Aquino the Department of Social Welfare and Development has been providing grief counseling to the families of the three Filipinos.
The three Filipinos were convicted of drug trafficking but they can also be considered as "victims of unscrupulous recruiters and drug traffickers, and victims of a society that could not provide for them enough gainful employment in their home country," the President said.
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