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'''[[Capital punishment]]''' is a legal penalty in '''[[Vietnam]]'''.
'''Capital punishment''' is a legal form of punishment in '''[[Vietnam]]'''. Capital punishment (the death penalty) is a special punishment only applied for persons who commit serious [[crime]]s. 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|accessdate=10 October 2011}}</ref>▼
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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|policemen]], 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|National Assembly]].<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|accessdate=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|accessdate=11 October 2011}}</ref>
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