Death Penalty For Crime of Murders: The Case Of Dong Nai Province, Vietnam

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Le Thi Minh Thu , Doan Trong Chinh

Abstract

Murder is a crime that is specified relatively early in Vietnam's criminal legislative history. Throughout the legislative history of the Vietnam Criminal Law with several revision and amendment, the highest penalty for murder crime is the death penalty. In according to the downward trend of regulations on the death penalty, Article 123 of the Criminal Law 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017)  have many amendments. The question could be raised in this paper is whether in the practice of Vietnam the rate of the death penalty application for murder offense accounts for a worrying proportion or not?

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