Vietnam
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Since 1997, possession or smuggling at least 100g or...
- News items in the archive
- 784
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Vietnam is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 784 news items on Vietnam, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam...
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam to waive the death penalty against an Australian woman convicted of drug trafficking
- AUGUST 29, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Speaking in relation to Le My Linh, an Australian sentenced...
Speaking in relation to Le My Linh, an Australian sentenced to death in Vietnam for drug trafficking, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that the federal government had no sympathy for drug traffickers but was equally firm in its opposition to the dea
- AUGUST 29, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in the southern Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam...
A court in the southern Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam handed down the death sentence to an Australian of Vietnamese origin after she was found guilty of heroin trafficking
- AUGUST 16, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The court in northern Hung Yen province sentenced four...
The court in northern Hung Yen province sentenced four women and one man to death after they were found guilty of drug trafficking
- AUGUST 2, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The HCMC People's Court sentenced to death Bui Minh...
The HCMC People's Court sentenced to death Bui Minh Hai and Ta Kim Tien after convicting them of murder in the fatal shooting of one man during a gold store robbery
- JULY 30, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
UN Human Rights Committee concludes seventy-fifth session...
UN Human Rights Committee concludes seventy-fifth session and adopting final conclusions and recommendations, it remained concerned about the large number of crimes for which the death penalty might still be imposed in Viet Nam
- JULY 30, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
UN Human Rights Committee concludes seventy-fifth session...
UN Human Rights Committee concludes seventy-fifth session and adopting final conclusions and recommendations, it remained concerned about the large number of crimes for which the death penalty might still be imposed in Viet Nam
- JULY 26, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Committee urged Communist Vietnam...
The UN Human Rights Committee urged Communist Vietnam to curb the number of crimes subject to the death penalty, end arbitrary detention and lift restrictions on freedom of expression
- JULY 26, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Committee urged Communist Vietnam...
The UN Human Rights Committee urged Communist Vietnam to curb the number of crimes subject to the death penalty, end arbitrary detention and lift restrictions on freedom of expression
- JUNE 28, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed for child rape in June, including...
Three men were executed for child rape in June, including a teacher convicted of raping six girls aged seven and eight
- JUNE 20, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A 27-year-old Vietnamese man is to be executed after...
A 27-year-old Vietnamese man is to be executed after he stabbed a close friend to death at a funeral during an argument over what music to play
- JUNE 19, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Courts in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam received...
Courts in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam received 17,986 cases in the first six months of 2002, of which 56
- JUNE 13, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ly A Va and Va A Say, to two ethnic men in northern...
Ly A Va and Va A Say, to two ethnic men in northern mountainous Lai Chau province, were sentenced to death for murder and drug trafficking
- JUNE 12, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
In some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese...
In some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press Reuters that has not verified it and does not vouch for it accuracy reported that a court in the northern province of Lai Chau has sentenced to death two people found guilty of killing an ant
- JUNE 12, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Lap and Pho Van Chinh were shot aftre being...
Nguyen Van Lap and Pho Van Chinh were shot aftre being convicted of raping minors
- JUNE 12, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Lap and Pho Van Chinh were executed by firing...
Nguyen Van Lap and Pho Van Chinh were executed by firing squad in Vietnam for raping minors
- JUNE 11, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for killing...
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for killing his parents with a meal laced with rat poison, a court official said
- JUNE 10, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for strangling...
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for strangling his 107-year-old grandfather, a court official said
- JUNE 7, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam executed a school teacher for raping six pupils...
Vietnam executed a school teacher for raping six pupils aged between seven and eight, despite an appeal for clemency by parents' of his victims, a court official said
- JUNE 6, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Bui Hiep Thang, Ngo Anh Cuong and Pham Quang Huy were...
Bui Hiep Thang, Ngo Anh Cuong and Pham Quang Huy were shot in Vietnam for murder
- MAY 27, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Australia held inaugural talks with Vietnam on human...
Australia held inaugural talks with Vietnam on human rights and raised concerns about the treatment of dissidents and Australians facing possible death sentences in Vietnam
- MAY 21, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A sentence of death was executed by firing squad in...
A sentence of death was executed by firing squad in HCMC on Taiwanese Chen Chi Tien who was arrested in May 1995 in the city when producing heavy narcotics (methamphetamines) under cover of a soap factory
- MAY 21, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ho Chi Minh City firing squad ended the life of...
The Ho Chi Minh City firing squad ended the life of Tram Huy, a 68 year old Vietnamese-Chinese, who was accused of processing methamphetamine chlohydrate(MA), a dangerous kind of addictive substance
- MAY 7, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
In some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese...
In some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press, reported by Reuters it was said that police investigators have proposed prosecuting 10 people for alleged relations to an inter-provincial drug trafficking ring from which two separate court
- APRIL 26, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
In a report by Nguyen Ba Chuyen entitled: "Drug-related...
In a report by Nguyen Ba Chuyen entitled: "Drug-related crimes in Nghe An are still an urgent Problem" by Vietnamese army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan on 26 April it was said that in Hung Long, a village with about 5,000 residents in Hung Nguyen district a
- APRIL 25, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the...
Vietnam voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 13, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Communist Vietnam is considering a reduction in the...
Communist Vietnam is considering a reduction in the number of crimes punishable by death and is seeking an alternative to the firing squad for executions, state-controlled media said Saturday
- APRIL 4, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's Mekong Delta sentenced a man to...
A court in Vietnam's Mekong Delta sentenced a man to death after he was found guilty of killing four women as sacrifices for his ritual beliefs
- APRIL 3, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court sentenced three people, one a women,...
A Vietnamese court sentenced three people, one a women, to death by firing squad and two to life in prison after they were found guilty of trafficking 346 kg of opium, official media reported
- MARCH 22, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
One of Vietnam's most senior police officers spoke...
One of Vietnam's most senior police officers spoke out against the death penalty, saying statistics show it does nothing to cut crime