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 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to...
Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to be a doctor of traditional medicine, was executed in southern Vietnam for fatally poisoning four people and robbing them
- OCTOBER 28, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern...
Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern Vietnam for killing a 16-year-old girl after she repeatedly spurned his advances
- OCTOBER 24, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dang Xuan Hai and Tran Van Thuong, both aged 38, were...
Dang Xuan Hai and Tran Van Thuong, both aged 38, were put to death by firing squad at dawn in the Vietnamese capital's Cau Nga execution site
- OCTOBER 24, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Two drug traffickers on death-row in Vietnam had their...
Two drug traffickers on death-row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong, state media said
- OCTOBER 23, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern...
Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern province of Thanh Hoa
- OCTOBER 17, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed in Vietnam for murder as part...
Three men were executed in Vietnam for murder as part of the government's ongoing crackdown against violent crime
- OCTOBER 14, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Dung was sentenced to death by the People's...
Nguyen Van Dung was sentenced to death by the People's Court in Haiphong for murdering two children on June 3, 2003 while looting their house in northern Vietnam
- OCTOBER 10, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed...
Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, on the Thu Duc killing fields, for beating to death another prisoner in October 1995
- OCTOBER 7, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province,...
Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province, Vietnam, was sentenced to death for trafficking heroin from Laos and China
- OCTOBER 6, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences...
Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dinh Son Hai, a 22 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced...
Dinh Son Hai, a 22 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced to death after being convicted by a court in southern Binh Duong province of murdering his friend Ho Viet Quoc in December 2002, in order to steal his motorcycle and jewellery
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai...
A court in Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai handed down the death penalty to Dinh Quang Tuan for stabbing and beating to death his neighbour, Kieu Thi Phung, in June 2003, while trying to rob her motorbike and jewellery