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The [[Human Rights Measurement Initiative]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries |url=https://humanrightsmeasurement.org/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=humanrightsmeasurement.org}}</ref> gives Vietnam a score of 4.4 out of 10 on the right to freedom from the death penalty, based on responses from human rights experts in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vietnam - HRMI Rights Tracker |url=https://rightstracker.org/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=rightstracker.org |language=en}}</ref> These experts have also identified that certain groups, such as migrants and/or immigrants, people with low social or economic status, and refugees or asylum seekers are particularly at risk of having their right to freedom from the death penalty violated. In 2020, these experts additionally identified "those involved in land disputes, particularly those involved with the [[2017 Hanoi hostage crisis|Dong Tam Village attack]]" and "detainees or prisoners, particularly those convicted for drug offences or robberies", as being especially vulnerable to death penalty executions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vietnam - HRMI Rights Tracker |url=https://rightstracker.org/ |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=rightstracker.org |language=en}}</ref>
It 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|accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref>▼
==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
In November 2015, a revision of the Penal Code was passed that severely curtailed the death penalty
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Between August 6, 2013 and June 30, 2016, Vietnam executed 429 people.<ref name="Diplomat" >{{cite magazine |magazine=[[The Diplomat]] |title=Beware Vietnam's Death Machine |first=David |last=Hutt |date=April 20, 2017 |access-date=April 20, 2017 |url=https://thediplomat.com/2017/04/beware-vietnams-death-machine/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421012041/https://thediplomat.com/2017/04/beware-vietnams-death-machine/ |archive-date=April 21, 2017}}</ref> 1,134 people were sentenced to death between July 2011 and June 2016.<ref name="Diplomat"/> The number of individuals on [[death row]] is not known.<ref name="Diplomat"/>
==Crimes carrying capital punishment in Vietnam==
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== See also ==
*[[Crime in Vietnam]]
*[[Law of Vietnam]]
*[[Lê Thanh Vân]]
==References==
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Penal Code No. 100/2015/QH13
==Sources==
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