The execution of three convicted Filipinos, who were convicted for drug trafficking in China, was carried out today Wednesday, March 30,2011, in a confirmation stated by Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay.

“I just want to inform you that our three compatriots have been executed,” Binay told ABS-CBN news, citing information from the Philippine foreign affairs ministry.

Chinese authorities carried out the execution of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain today via lethal injection.

The three Pinoys were arrested separately in 2008 for carrying at least 4 kilograms of heroin and was convicted in 2009. China has been known for strictly imposing their law regarding drugs. Possession and smuggling of more than 50 grams of heroin or other known drugs is punishable by death in China.

Though the Philippine government had taken every available opportunity to appeal to the authorities of China for clemency in their cases, to which the Chinese government responded with a postponement of the execution, but still the sentence was imposed by the by the courts of the People’s Republic of China this morning, according to Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda.

The whole Filipino nation sympathized with the families of the executed Filipinos.