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
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan...
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan Thanh Nhan, 21, to death after he was convicted of killing his pregnant lover in October 2003
- APRIL 19, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The justice sector in Vietnam would consider reviewing...
The justice sector in Vietnam would consider reviewing the list of offenses subject to the death penalty, especially economic crime, following public concern over the large number of executions in Vietnam
- APRIL 12, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam applies the death penalty for 29 different crimes.
Vietnam applies the death penalty for 29 different crimes.
- APRIL 9, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thi Ha , a Vietnamese woman convicted of trafficking...
Nguyen Thi Ha , a Vietnamese woman convicted of trafficking drug, was executed by firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City
- APRIL 6, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Hiep, an abattoir worker, was sentenced...
Nguyen Van Hiep, an abattoir worker, was sentenced to death by the Ben Tre People's Court in Vietnam for killing a man who tried to break up a drunken argument he was having with a friend while playing billiards
- APRIL 5, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An appeals court in Hanoi, Vietnam, upheld the death...
An appeals court in Hanoi, Vietnam, upheld the death sentence La Thi Kim Oanh, a woman who embezzled millions of dollars from the government, while two vice ministers had their sentences reduced for their roles in the scam
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court, Vietnam, handed...
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court, Vietnam, handed down two death sentences to Nguyen Chi Dung, the head of an armed gang that preyed on goods trucks and vehicles in the southern Mekong Delta region
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Anh Tuan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese drug addict,...
Nguyen Anh Tuan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese drug addict, was put to death by firing squad at dawn in Ho Chi Minh City for murdering a motorbike taxi driver in January 2001 to fund his heroin addiction
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four people, including a married couple, were sentenced...
Four people, including a married couple, were sentenced to death in Vietnam after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country from Laos
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of...
The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of Binh Phuoc sentenced to death Nguyen Hai Son, 40
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of...
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of Vietnamese origin, was executed in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for belonging to a methamphetamine manufacturing and trafficking network
- MARCH 25, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Hoang Thi Dan, a 46 year old woman convicted of drug...
Hoang Thi Dan, a 46 year old woman convicted of drug trafficking, was sentenced to death by the People's Court in Hai Phong city, northern Vietnam, for illegally transporting and trafficking drugs