The Chiong murder case (People of the Philippines vs. Francisco Juan Larrañaga et al.) was a rape-murder case in the Philippines. On July 16, 1997, in Cebu, sisters Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong allegedly were kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Francisco Juan "Paco" Larrañaga (b. 1977), a man of dual Filipino and Spanish citizenship was, along with six others, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death by lethal injection on February 3, 2004. He, along with six others, were sentenced to death. Capital punishment in the Philippines has since been abolished.
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