Vietnam
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- communist state
- CONSTITUTION
- April 15, 1992
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on communist theory and the French system
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly (Quoc-Hoi)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- People's Supreme Court, head elected for five years by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the President
RELIGIONS
9.3% Buddhists, 6.7% Catholics, other minorities, 80% none
From the country
OCTOBER 17, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: 30-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A 30-year-old Hanoian was sentenced to death on 13 October 2022 for killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter by hammering nails into her head.
OCTOBER 3, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: CHIEF ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR EMBEZZLING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DONG TO GAMBLE
After a week of deliberation, on the afternoon of 30 September 2022, the People’s Court of Dong Thap province sentenced defendant Nguyen Trung Thanh, former chief accountant of Pilmico Vietnam Co. Ltd.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: DEATH ROW INMATE DANG VAN HIEN GETS REDUCED SENTENCE
Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has commuted the death sentence of Dang Van Hien and reduced it to life in prison, Hien’s wife, Mai Thi Khuyen, told RFA on 15 September 2022.
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: TWO RECEIVE DEATH FOR THROWING DRUG-FUELED PARTIES AT HANOI MENTAL HOSPITAL
Two people in Hanoi were sentenced to death on 31 August 2022 after throwing drug-related parties and selling/storing narcotics inside a mental hospital.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: 7 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NARCOTIC TRANSPORTATION
The People’s Court in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on 3 August 2022 sentenced seven people to death for illegally transporting over 45 kilograms of narcotics in 2020.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRIVING DRUG CART AT POLICE
Pham Van Tang, 32 years old, was sentenced to death on 26 August 2022 in Vietnam for driving a motorbike carrying 9 kg of drugs and running at police while under siege in Vu Quang district.
- JULY 31, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: FIVE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS FROM HCMC TO PHILIPPINES
Five men were all sentenced to death on 27 July 2022 in HCMC (Vietnam) for transporting almost 300 kg of methamphetamine to the Philippines in 2019.
JULY 20, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 5-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER BY THROWING HER INTO RIVER
A man who killed his five-year-old daughter by throwing her into the river earlier this year was sentenced to death by the People’s Court in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam on 18 July 2022.
JUNE 14, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, MURDERING 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A man from An Giang Province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta was sentenced to death for raping a 12-year-old girl before murdering her in order to cover up the crime.
MAY 4, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: TWO CHINESE GET DEATH FOR METH PRODUCTION
A court in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum sentenced two Chinese men to death on 16 April 2022 for running an operation producing over 11kg of methamphetamine.
- MAY 1, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: MAN RECEIVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING SISTER, STEALING PARENTS’ MONEY
A man from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region on 12 April 2022 was condemned to death for murdering his elder sister and stealing their parents’ money last year.
- APRIL 10, 2022VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM: PEOPLE’S COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR BANKER IN $18MN EMBEZZLEMENT CASE
The high-level People’s Court in Hanoi on 5 April 2022 upheld the death penalty handed down to the former director of a bank branch in Hai Phong City, northern Vietnam for embezzling VND414 billion (US$18.1 million).