By KTT | May 27, 2015
Vietnamese lawmakers have turned down a proposal by the government to remove death sentences for corruption crime in the amendment to Criminal Law, saying that the move would make the situation worse amid the fight against corruption which is believed to ruin the country’s development.
At the National Assembly’s ongoing plenary, lawmaker Nguyen Duc Chung said that it is not fair that death sentence for corruption crime should be dropped while the death penalty would be maintained for other kinds of criminals because state officials are educated and aware of law but they deliberately break the law.
Lawmaker Ho Trong Ngu said that corruption normally causes serious consequences to the state and negative impacts to the society as only 10% of corrupt assets are returned to the state.
In consent with Mr. Ngu, lawmaker Bui Thi An said that people who charged with corruption crime must turn the corrupt assets back in order to partly repair the damage and they must be punished in pursuant to criminal law too.
The lawmakers also asked the government to keep death sentence to drug traffickers.
Currently, Vietnam keeps death sentence to 22 kinds of crimes.
The country intends to reduce the number of crimes charged with capital punishment to 15.
The reduction partly shows Vietnam’s efforts to remove death sentences as called for by foreign countries and organizations, including the Amnesty International, Harm Reduction International, and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
But local lawmakers concern over the rising and more venturesome crimes.
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May 27, 2015
Vietnam Lawmakers Oppose Removing Death Sentences for Corruption Crime
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
By KTT | May 27, 2015
Vietnamese lawmakers have turned down a proposal by the government to remove death sentences for corruption crime in the amendment to Criminal Law, saying that the move would make the situation worse amid the fight against corruption which is believed to ruin the country’s development.
At the National Assembly’s ongoing plenary, lawmaker Nguyen Duc Chung said that it is not fair that death sentence for corruption crime should be dropped while the death penalty would be maintained for other kinds of criminals because state officials are educated and aware of law but they deliberately break the law.
Lawmaker Ho Trong Ngu said that corruption normally causes serious consequences to the state and negative impacts to the society as only 10% of corrupt assets are returned to the state.
In consent with Mr. Ngu, lawmaker Bui Thi An said that people who charged with corruption crime must turn the corrupt assets back in order to partly repair the damage and they must be punished in pursuant to criminal law too.
The lawmakers also asked the government to keep death sentence to drug traffickers.
Currently, Vietnam keeps death sentence to 22 kinds of crimes.
The country intends to reduce the number of crimes charged with capital punishment to 15.
The reduction partly shows Vietnam’s efforts to remove death sentences as called for by foreign countries and organizations, including the Amnesty International, Harm Reduction International, and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
But local lawmakers concern over the rising and more venturesome crimes.