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
- JANUARY 1, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam imposes the death penalty for murder, drug...
Vietnam imposes the death penalty for murder, drug trafficking and large-scale corruption
- JANUARY 1, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
About 18,000 people were arrested for their involvement...
About 18,000 people were arrested for their involvement in drug smuggling and drug abuse in the first 9 months of 1999, a local report stated in late October, while Vice Minister of Public Security Le The Tiem was quoted as saying that local police have m
- JANUARY 1, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
In the first week of January, two men were shot in public
In the first week of January, two men were shot in public
- JANUARY 1, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
At least 76 prisoners were executed in 1999 for drug...
At least 76 prisoners were executed in 1999 for drug trafficking in the Southeast Asian nation