In haste, Sandiganbayan jiustices forgot death penalty had been abolished

Just over an hour ago, the verdict in the plunder and perjury trial of former President Joseph Estrada was read, and the most telling sign of haste was that the justices forgot the death penalty had been abolished. The clerk of court said:

...the penalty for (plunder) is a minimum of reclusion perpetua and a maximum of death. But there having been no mitigating nor aggravating circumstances, the minimum of the two is hereby imposed...

None of the anchors of the ANC, nor the legal experts in the studio notice the egregious error. Neither did the former president's lawyers advert to this in their immediate reactions to media.