The Filipina overseas worker convicted for murder in Kuwait was executed by hanging on Wednesday, 10:19 am (3:19 pm in Manila).
Jakatia Pawa, 33, is the first Filipino to face execution in Kuwait, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Charles Jose said in a press briefing.
It was in 2010 when Kuwait's Court of Cassation sentenced her to death for the murder of her employer's daughter in 2007.
Before the execution, she graced a phone call from her detention cell to her family where she bid goodbye and pronounced her last will.
Pawa started working in Kuwait in 2002 to support her two children in Zamboanga del Norte.
She denied all allegations against her saying that some members of the victim's family has heavier motives to kill the 22-year-old lady with 28 stabs while asleep.
Evidences show that Pawa's fingerprint is not found in the crime scene and blood samples didn't match hers.
Jose added that efforts to appeal to the victim's family for a tanazul or affidavit of forgiveness has been "unrelenting" since Arroyo administration until the last minute before her execution under Duterte.
Pawa, under the Islamic rules, will be buried in Kuwait.
Source: GMA News
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