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[[Capital punishment]] is a legal penalty in [[Vietnam]] for a variety of crimes.
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==Characteristics==
Twenty-nine articles in the [[Penal Code of Vietnam|Penal Code]] allow the death penalty as an optional punishment. Executions were once carried out by a [[firing squad]] of seven [[police officer]]s, where the prisoners were blindfolded and tied to stakes. The firing squad was replaced by [[lethal injection]] in November 2011 after the Law on Execution of Criminal Judgments (in article 59(1)) was passed by the [[National Assembly of Vietnam]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Firing squad replaced by lethal injection|url=http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Social-Isssues/215697/Firing-squad-replaced-by-lethal-injection-.html|publisher=Viet Nam News|access-date=10 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=No: 53/2010/QH12 - Execution of criminal judgments|url=http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=10484|publisher=Misistry of Justice|access-date=11 October 2011}}{{dead link|date=November 2016|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> The drugs used to execute prisoners are produced domestically.<ref name="Diplomat"/> The first execution conducted by lethal injection was of Nguyen Anh Tuan, convicted of [[Murder|murdering]] gas station employee Bui Thi Nguyet on August 6, 2013. <ref>{{cite news|last1=Ha|first1=Le|title=First death row inmate executed by lethal injection|url=http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/81030/first-death-row-inmate-executed-by-lethal-injection.html|access-date=31 March 2018|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128203449/http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/81030/first-death-row-inmate-executed-by-lethal-injection.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In November 2015, a revision of the Penal Code was passed that severely curtailed the death penalty
The death penalty cannot be applied to [[juvenile crime|juvenile offenders]], pregnant women, and women nursing children under 36 months old at the time the crime was committed or being tried. These cases are [[commutation of sentence|commuted]] to [[life imprisonment]].<ref name="Penal Code">{{cite web|title=Penal Code (No. 15/1999/QH10) |url=http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/_layouts/printeng.aspx?id=610 |publisher=Ministry of Justice |access-date=10 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002004440/http://vbqppl.moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/_layouts/printeng.aspx?id=610 |archive-date=2 October 2013 }}</ref>
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