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3 Filipino Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain were executionsvia in China via lethal injection.

They were arrested separately in 2008 when they were caught carrying packages of at least 4 kilograms of heroin.In 2009 they were convicted and sentenced

They are the first to be executed of 72 Filipinos who are on death row in China due to drug-related cases.

China takes the drug trafficking problem very seriously, Smuggling more than 50 grams of heroin or other drugs is punishable by death in China.

The executions were carried out just days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty.