MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 2) – The 3 Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking were executed on Wednesday morning in China, Vice-President Jejomar Binay told ANC. Chinese authorities carried out the executions of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain via lethal injection. Villanueva and Credo were both executed in the city of Xiamen while Batain’s sentence was meted out in Shenzhen. Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda confirmed the news. He said the entire nation sympathizes with the families of the 3. "The nation sympathized with the families of the condemned, sharing their sense of looming loss. We sympathize with these families now. Their deaths are a vivid lesson in the tragic toll the drug trade takes on entire families," he said. The 3 were arrested separately in 2008 carrying packages of at least 4 kilograms of heroin. Smuggling more than 50 grams of heroin or other drugs is punishable by death in China. They were convicted and sentenced in ...