Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Mrs. Arroyo issued the executive clemency last June 24, the same day she signed Republic Act No. 9346 abolishing the death penalty.
Two weeks ago, Mrs. Arroyo granted clemency to more than 40 convicts.
Ermita said from January to June, a total of 367 convicts were granted clemency, 181 of them were given conditional pardon, while 186 had their sentences commuted.
He said there are 1,058 death convicts whose sentences were automatically reduced to life imprisonment after the death penalty law was repealed.
There are 157 convicts whose death sentences have been affirmed with finality by the Supreme Court, he added.
RA 9346 will take effect immediately after its publication in two newspapers of general circulation.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Arroyo was advised by the political opposition to stop trumpeting the abolition of the death penalty when she has yet to address the extra-judicial killings of leftist activists.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said Mrs. Arroyo should not use the repeal of the death penalty to win support from the Catholic Church while the killing of activists continues to go on.
Mrs. Arroyo’s pro-life policy "smacks of hypocrisy" because of the continuing attacks against individuals identified with the left, he added.
The abolition of the death penalty by Congress was presented by Mrs. Arroyo to Pope Benedict XVI during her official visit to the Vatican.
It was reported that the Pope congratulated Mrs. Arroyo for abolishing the death penalty.
"The Pope may have lauded Gloria for the passage of the law abolishing the death penalty but the continuing extra-judicial killings of activists, journalists and plain citizens under her government should be a cause for citizen outrage," Pimentel said.
"The security of the lives of people is a prime duty of the government and as head of state and the government, President Arroyo cannot evade responsibility for the murderous climate obtaining in the country today.
"She cannot say she is not somehow complacent in the face of the sordid salvaging episodes going on in the country. As far as the people can see, the buck stops at her office."
Pimentel said Mrs. Arroyo should be held accountable for the extra-judicial killings as head of state, and encouraged the proponents of the impeachment cases against her to include this issue in their complaints.
"The proponents of the new impeach try should probably incorporate the fact that more than 600 salvagings (have been) done since she assumed the presidency in 2001 as one of the specifications in the charges against her," he said.
Pimentel chided Mrs. Arroyo for saying that she would use the power of prayer to defend herself from the impeachment charges.
"Prayer is a potent power against evil," he said. "But I am not too sure that the impeachment try against her is an evil act. I suggest that Gloria should pray for guidance that her administration should not prolong the agony of the people in terms of corruption, abuse of human rights and the misuse of public funds." — Paolo Romero, Marvin Sy