Laotian drug mule who was paid mere $42 gets death sentence
A court in the central Ha Tinh Province has sentenced a Laotian man to death for transporting one kilogram of ketamine and 7,000 amphetamine pills into Vietnam.
Three drug mules get death sentence
A central Vietnam court handed three death sentences and one life prison term to four men found smuggling six kilograms of meth from Laos.
Vietnamese duo get death penalty for hosting drug parties in psychiatric hospital
A man who threw drug-fuelled raves at a psychiatric hospital in Vietnam has been sentenced to death.
Man receives death for raping, killing 12-year-old
A man in the southern province of An Giang was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl.
Vietnam keeps its death sentences quiet. Rights groups say it’s one of the world’s biggest executioners
For months, Mai Linh prayed. She prayed for justice for her only son Quan when he was held on drug charges in a maximum-security prison in Vietnam.
Two Chinese get death for methaphamine production
A court in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum sentenced two Chinese men to death Saturday for running an operation producing over 11kg of meth.
Three receive death for drug smuggling
Three people in the central Nghe An Province were sentenced to death Tuesday for drug smuggling, while one was sentenced for life.
Man sentenced to death for smuggling ecstasy from Europe to Vietnam
A Da Nang City court has sentenced to death the kingpin of a gang that smuggled thousands of ecstasy pills into Vietnam last year.
Vietnam sentences three Laotian drug mules to death
A court in central Vietnam handed out death penalties to three Laotian men for transporting heroin and other narcotics.
Hanoi drug mule sentenced to death on $650 job
A Hanoi man received a death sentence for transporting over 2.5 kilos of ecstasy into the city last year.
Vietnam upholds farmers’ death penalty over land clash
Three police were killed during a bloody confrontation between authorities and farmers defending their land rights
6 get death in HCMC for trafficking nearly 100 kg of drugs
A HCMC court sentenced six members of a transnational gang to death on Friday for trafficking 100 kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Six sentenced to death in HCMC for drug trafficking
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday sentenced six drug traffickers to death for smuggling 13.8 kilograms of synthetic drugs and ketamine from Cambodia into the city.
Dong Tam case: Two sentenced to death in Vietnam over police killings
A court in Vietnam has sentenced two brothers to death for their role in the killing of three policemen in a notorious land dispute in January.
Malaysian woman sentenced to death in Vietnam for transporting drugs
A Vietnamese court today sentenced a Malaysian woman to death for transporting 3.3kg of cocaine from Brazil to Vietnam.
Four drug traffickers sentenced to death in central Vietnam
A court in the central province of Nghe An on Monday sentenced four men to death for trafficking 28.7 kilograms of methamphetamine from Laos.
Singaporean man sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam
A court in southern Vietnam on Friday handed a Singaporean man the death sentence for trafficking nearly ten kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Vietnam drug kingpin, four accomplices sentenced to death
The HCMC court sentenced Van Kinh Duong and four accomplices to death on Monday for producing 124 kilos of narcotics.
Capital punishment in Vietnam and Ho Duy Hai
Deep concerns abound that skewed system results in deaths of innocents