Nguyen Van Van, a former coach of the Vietnamese national tae kwon do team, was executed

Nguyen Van Van, a former coach of the Vietnamese national tae kwon do team, was executed by firing squad for murder. Van was put to death at Long Binh execution ground in the southern Ho Chi Minh City.
  A municipal appeal court handed down in June 2004 the death sentence to Van, who was only sentenced to life imprisonment at his first trial in March of the same year, for murdering a man in an ambush on December 19, 1996. The incident took place at a cafe after one of Van's sons got involved in a brawl with a customer. Accompanied by family members, Van stormed into the cafe where he injured the cafe owner and stabbed to death his brother-in-law, Le Hong Quan.