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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Vietnam for a variety of crimes. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [ 1 ] gives Vietnam a score of 4.4 out of 10 on the right to freedom from the death penalty, based on responses from human rights experts in the country. [ 2 ]
Lan, 68, was appealing a death sentence for orchestrating a $44bn fraud – the largest in banking history. Convicted in April under Vietnam’s anti-corruption campaign, she was accused of ...
Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan faces the death penalty in a trial that began Tuesday over alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and Vietnam's largest ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Used as punishment for high treason in the Ancien régime; also used by several others countries at various points in history. Drowning: Execution by drowning is attested very early in history, by a large variety of cultures, and as the method of execution for many different offences. Drawing and quartering: English method of execution for high ...
The death sentence handed to a real estate tycoon in a $12.5 billion financial fraud case is the latest punishment meted out by Vietnam in the Southeast Asian country’s sweeping “blazing ...
As of February 2014, the death penalty remains a punishment that can be applied to those who have been found guilty of criminal activity. In January 2014, a court in northern Vietnam sentenced 30 Vietnamese citizens to death after they were found guilty of heroin trafficking—the largest number of defendants sentenced to death in a single ...
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