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Presentation at Melbourne Law School
Presentation at Melbourne Law School
• Who am I?
• What is my Thesis?
• What is my Topic, today?
• and… Please calm down, if you think you don’t agree with my opinions
All of my statistics and data were referred and cited from multi-sources. Please
make sure that it only supports on scientific researches, not any political and
religion attitudes.
Disclaimer: This map indicates the general locations of boundaries and jurisdictions
and should not be interpreted as Amnesty International's view on disputed territory.
• To some extent, partly, it is explain that why thirty-two out of fifty-eight nations
or territories in the world, in 2011, that have to continue to stipulate the capital
punishment for drug offences (Gallahue, 2011).
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(with Death Penalty)
Source: Toan, Quoc Trinh 2012, The Death Penalty in Criminal Law of Vietnam -
Proposed Issues to Improve, Journal on Democracy and Law, 4(241), pp.22-29
Source: Toan, Quoc Trinh 2012, The Death Penalty in Criminal Law of Vietnam -
Proposed Issues to Improve, Journal on Democracy and Law, 4(241), pp.22-29
• Based on and International laws and its relation within Vietnam context
• Based on and International laws and its relation within Vietnam context
– Penalties aim not only to punish offenders but also to rehabilitate them
into persons useful to society and having the sense of observing laws and
regulations of the socialist life, preventing them from committing new
crimes.
• In Vietnam, the humanity principle requires that the courts use the least
intrusive and least severe sanction if possible, given the circumstances of the
offence and the offender due to the final intended aims of the sentencing
system is to educate and help the convicted rehabilitated
– Secondly, when investigation, prosecution, and trial, if the judicial bodies have enough legal
testimonies to prove that applying penalties such as termed imprisonment and life
imprisonment cannot guarantee to educate and rehabilitate them into persons helpful to
society, they must be charged with the death penalty
• A 20-year jail term for defendants guilty of trafficking from 100g to 300g of
heroin
• Not distinguish any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political
or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status of the
convicted
‘…The biggest issues have to do with when rather than whether capital
punishment will cease [due to] it is not an issue like air or water pollution in
which compliance with international norms carries significant costs for the
domestic economy. The pace toward ending the death penalty is slow more
because the incentives to cease execution are weak than because the costs of
abolition are high. [Thus,] Asia is the next important frontier for policy debate
and legal change with respect to capital punishment…(pp.xiii, 3, added
emphasizes).
Johnson, D. T., & Zimring, F. E. (2009). The Next Frontier: National Development,
Policy Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia. Oxford, the U.K.: Oxford Univesrity
Press.
• In Vietnam: