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Hanoi, Vietnam – Vietnam Will eliminate the death penalty for eight offenses from next month, including the diversion and activities aimed at overthrowing the government, the Parliament said on Wednesday, Stop the life of a magnate In a fraud case of $ 12 billion.
The National Assembly, the country’s judicial organization, unanimously ratified the amendment to the Criminal Code on Wednesday on Wednesday to abolish the death penalty for crimes, he said in a statement.
The other crimes which will no longer lead to the death penalty include the vandalization of state goods, the manufacture of false drugs, peace, the outbreak of invasive wars, espionage and drugs, said the official news agency in Vietnam.
The maximum sentence for these crimes will now be a life imprisonment, according to the report.
Those who have been sentenced to death for these offenses before July 1 but who have not yet been executed will have their sentence to life imprisonment, added the report.
They will understand the real estate magnate Truong My Lan, the president of the real estate developer van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, which was deathly condemned Last year on the fees of embezzlement of funds.
LAN lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Reuters.
“According to the amendment of the penal code, his sentence will be automatically reduced to perpetuity imprisonment,” lawyer Anh Tuan told Reuters, who is not part of the LAN defense team.
According to the report, ten offenses will remain subject to capital punishment in Vietnam, including murder, betrayal, terrorism and sexual abuse of children. Drug trafficking will also remain a capital offense.
The data on capital punishment is a state secret in Vietnam and we do not know how many people are currently in the corridor of death in the country. Lethal injection is the only method of execution after the aboli of the shooting squads in 2011.
