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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection 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. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

South Carolina death row inmate awaiting new sentence found dead

Jesse Sapp
Jesse Sapp
Officials say a death row inmate who was awaiting a new sentence after challenging his execution order has been found dead at a Ridgeville prison.

The Post and Courier reports 36-year-old Jesse Sapp died at the Lieber Correctional Institution.

State prisons spokeswoman Stephanie Givens says officers found Sapp’s body in his cell on Sunday.

The Dorchester County Coroner’s Office did not immediately confirm details of his death.

Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, who was fighting Sapp’s bid for a new sentence, says officials told her that the death was a suicide.

Sapp was convicted in the killing of state Trooper Jeff Johnson in 2002.

Sapp’s attorneys successfully challenged his death sentence.

A judge ordered a new sentencing phase due to mistakes by prosecutors in Sapp’s 2003 trial.

Source: Associated Press, October 13, 2015

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