Let’s all pray for the Filipinos who are convicted and sentenced to life penalty due to drug trafficking. You might have thought that they are criminals and they should pay the price but they are just victims of illegal recruiters. They went to China to work and make a living for their family back in the Philippines. Since going abroad takes a lot of money on making the papers for traveling and finding a job and all, they have no choice but to go search the cheapest possible package that will take them to China, without knowing that they are illegal. They have three days before the said life penalty. Three days. Please take time to pray for our kababayans. They need our prayers. May The Mighty God bless them. here's an article from http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110217-264010.html Aquino seeks China mercy MANILA - As time ticks, President Benigno Aquino III is calling Chinese President Hu Jintao in a last-ditch effort to save three Filipino "drug mules" from execution in China and possibly commute their death sentence. "But as of now, they have not yet signified willingness to accept the phone calls," the President said. "It is time for them to demonstrate their pronounced statements of improved or closer bilateral ties. This will be a test," Mr. Aquino told reporters. Relations between the two countries soured last year following the botched hostage rescue in Manila that left eight Hong Kong Chinese dead. At press time Wednesday night, the President was conferring at the Palace with Vice President Jejomar Binay on the case. "I might send (Binay) as emissary to stress how important it is for us to have the death penalty be commuted to life imprisonment," Mr. Aquino said before the meeting with Binay and after his calls to the Chinese leader since Friday went unanswered. He said he wrote a letter to Chinese leaders in August last year for the commutation of the death sentences to life imprisonment, calling the plea "very, very reasonable." Facing execution on Monday in the southern city of Xiamen are Ramon Credo, 42, a father of five children; Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, 32, a mother of two; and Elizabeth Batain, 38, on Tuesday in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. The trio-who would be the first Philippine nationals executed in China-were convicted separately of smuggling heroin into China in 2008, said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Credo and Villanueva were each found carrying more than 4,000 grams of heroin, while 6,800 grams were seized from Batain.