VIETNAM CONSIDERS REDUCING DEATH SENTENCES

Vietnam is considering the possibility of reducing the number of economic offences, excluding corruption, that are punishable by the death penalty, local newspaper Pioneer reported.
According to a proposal by Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, the country should not apply the death penalty to some economic offences including fraud, excluding corruption and embezzlement, the newspaper quoted major-general Tran Dinh Nha, vice chairman of the Security and Defence Committee of the National Assembly, the country's top legislature, and former director of the ministry's Legal Department, as saying.
Vietnam has not issued any death sentences on the charge of corruption so far, because local investigators have yet to find evidences to prove that someone has received bribes of billions of Vietnamese dong (hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars), the amount publishable by the death penalty.