One Call Too Late
While we don’t have any failed execution stories, there was one instance where the busy phone line resulted to the convict’s execution before it could have been postponed. Minutes before convicted rapist Eduardo Agbayani was scheduled to be executed, Bishop Teodoro Bacani, the spiritual adviser of President Joseph Estrada, called him and said that Agbayani’s daughters, who were also his victims, were willing to forgive him. Estrada tried to call to stop the execution, but he only received fax tones and busy signals. At 3:12 PM he managed to connect, only to discover that Agbayani had already died at 3:11 PM.
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