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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for its 'astonishing' number of executions with prisoners dragged from cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection
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April 12, 2024
Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history (inset). Vietnam and its communist government is famously secretive about its state-sanctioned executions. But while there is a lack of data, rights groups believe the country to be one of the world's biggest executioners. Data published in 2017 by Vietnamese media outlets - that had previously been classified - revealed 429 people had been executed between 2013 and 2016, revealing the sheer scale of the death penalty's use in the country. This put it behind only China and Iran in its use of state executions. Here, MailOnline looks at Vietnam's use of the death penalty.