Vietnam to remove death penalty for embezzlement, sparing tycoon's life
The National Assembly, the country's lawmaking body, unanimously ratified the amendment to the Criminal Code earlier on Wednesday to abolish the death penalty for the crimes, it said in a statement.
Other crimes that will no longer lead to the death penalty include vandalising state property, manufacturing fake medicine, jeopardising peace, triggering invasive wars, espionage and carrying drugs, officialVietnam News Agency said.
The maximum sentence for these crimes will now be life imprisonment, the report said.
Those who were sentenced to death for these offences before July 1 but have not yet been executed will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the report added.
These will include real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, the chairwoman of real estate developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, who was sentenced to death last year on embezzlement charges.
Lan's lawyers didn't immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
"According to the amendment of the Criminal Code, her sentence will automatically be reduced to life imprisonment," lawyer Ngo Anh Tuan, who is not part of Lan's defence team, told Reuters.
Ten offences will remain subject to capital punishment in Vietnam, including murder, treason, terrorism and the sexual abuse of children, according to the report. Drug trafficking will also remain a capital offence.
Capital punishment data is a State secret in Vietnam, and it is not known how many people are currently on death row in the country. Lethal injection is the only method of execution after firing squads were abolished in 2011.
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