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Death penalty for those accepting VND1 billion bribes up: Minister

Minister of Justice Le Thanh Long said that the Penal Code has regulations on the application of the death penalty to cases of embezzlement, accepting bribes with a property value of VND1 billion or more.

Five on death row for drug trafficking

Three separate courts on Thursday handed death penalties to five people and life sentences to another seven who were found guilty of dealing drugs.

Vietnam affirms imposing of death penalty on absolutely severe crimes only

Vietnam has many times reduced the number of crimes punishable with death penalty and the latest move was made in the 2015 Criminal Code, which took effect in 2018.

Death penalty proposal submitted for 11 drug traffickers

 VietNamNet Bridge – The death penalty was submitted on Thursday by the People’s Procuracy of Hoa Binh Province against 11 defendants for “illegally trading and storing drugs” as part of a massive trans-national heroin trafficking operation.

NA discusses cutting death penalty crimes

 VietNamNet Bridge – Talk of abolishing the death penalty for several crimes continued to divide National Assembly (NA) deputies yesterday (August 26) as they discussed the draft Criminal Code.

Court upholds death penalty for corrupt bank executive

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ho Chi Minh People's Court yesterday (April 8) upheld a death sentence handed down to the former director of Finance Leasing Company No. 2 (ACL II), who was involved in a major corruption case in 2007.

Vietnam urged to narrow parameters for death penalty

 VietNamNet Bridge – An international group of legal experts proposed that Vietnam stop the death penalty attached to nine crimes, prompting public debate on the issue.

Social Headlines January 17

 Two murderers receive death penalty; More arrests made in hacking scandal; Japan pledges millions in aid to Vietnam; Australia backs sanitation plan for rural areas; Vietnam anti-corruption initiative programme introduced

Nigerian sentenced to death for taking 3.2kg of narcotics into Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - At midnight, Vietnamese police discovered in the luggage of a Nigerian man, dozens of plastic bags containing white crystalline solids, which was then determined as narcotics, totaling 3.2kg.

Ministry of Public Security proposes to restore execution by shooting

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chief of the Supreme People’s Procuracy Office – Mr. Nguyen Viet Hung said, the deadline was over but the implementation of the death penalty by lethal injection has not been applicable.

Lethal injection “is still being prepared”

VietNamNet Bridge – Lieutenant General Cao Ngoc Oanh of the Ministry Public Security said on June 26 that the facilities and poison for lethal injection "are still being prepared."

105 countries abandon the death penalty

VietNamNet Bridge – On June 12, the fifth world conference against the death penalty opened in Madrid, Spain. The event, held by Together Against the Death Penalty, attracts 1,500 delegates from 90 countries.

Poison for lethal injection revealed

The poison that will be used for lethal injection in Vietnam from June 27, 2013 includes the sensory paralyzing drug, the drug that paralyzes the musculoskeletal system and the drug to stop the heart's activity.

Vietnam to produce poison for lethal injection

At the meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on crime prevention this morning, the Minister of Public Security said Vietnam would produce poison to serve the policy on conducting the death penalty by lethal injection.