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Thursday, January 26, 2017
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MANILA – Domestic worker Jakatia Pawa was executed on Wednesday in Kuwait, despite various efforts by her family and government officials to save her life.
The news about her execution was announced by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Philippine embassy officials were told by Sulaibiya Prison officials that Pawa’s execution would take place at 7:30 Kuwait time (12:30 p.m. Manila time).
Pawa was accused and sentenced to death for killing her employer’s daughter in 2007. But, until the end, she and her family maintained her innocence.
Before the execution, the Filipina was moved to a solitary cell with only a pillow, blanket, and a Qu’ran. She was likewise provided with a cellphone and call cards to contact her family.
The news about Pawa’s execution on Wednesday shocked her family and supporters. Her brother, Col. Gary Pawa of the Philippine Air Force thought the execution would be carried out on Thursday.
Pawa earlier made a last minute appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte to do everything in his power to help Jakatia.
“Sa ating mahal na pangulo, sana matulungan niya ang kapatid ko, maisalba ang buhay niya. Ibibitay na siya bukas,” Pawa said.
Pawa said he learned of the execution when his sister called.
“Tumawag kapatid ko kanina around 5 o’clock in the morning. Kasi nga nabigla nga ako kanina sa pagtawag niya kasi umiiyak. Sabi niya ‘Kuya, bukas bibitayin na kami‘,” he said.
Pawa said he cried when he heard his sister’s last wish.
“Magpapaalam ako. Kuya, huwag mong pabayaan dalawang anak ko, bukas bibitayin na ako. Yun lang mahihingi ko sa iyo,” Pawa quoted his sister as saying.
Pawa’s execution also came as a shock to the Filipino community in Kuwait, which had been expecting that her sentence would be commuted given that the Philippine embassy and the Department of Foreign Affairs had put in effort to secure a “tanazul” or a letter of forgiveness from the victim’s family.
A “tanazul” would state that the family grants the accused forgiveness for the crime committed, but it requires payment of blood money.
The family of Pawa’s victim, however, had refused to give a “tanazul” from the beginning, but in a recent breakthrough, one of the family members reportedly was already willing to sit down and negotiate. (ABS-CBN News)
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