The execution of drug trafficker Lim Seng by musketry 26 years ago during martial law shook the country and, for a while, practically put an end to the drug problem, which affected some 350,000 people during that period based on estimates by the then Philippine Constabulary.

The end only needed seven caliber .30 bullets from M-1 rifles pumped into Lim's chest at 6 a.m. of Jan. 15, 1973.

Today, the country is anxious to see the execution of another Lim Seng. There are 40 drug traffickers among more than 800 death convicts awaiting their turns in the lethal injection chamber at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City.

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