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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.

Iran: eight hanged in one day

May 16, 2009: eight men were hanged in Iran for murder and drug trafficking.

The first five were hanged in the Adelabad prison of Shiraz, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Etemad. All the men were convicted of murder and none of them were identified by their names. Those executed were: a man convicted of murdering her wife in the prison in April 2006; a young man charged with the murder of his friend in June 2006; a man charged with murder of his mother and father in law in May 2003; a 24 year-old man charged with murder of a 45 year-old man in July 2006; a 25 year-old man charged with murder of a man in September 2004.

Two men were hanged for drug trafficking in Isfahan, reported the daily newspaper Etemad.

According to the report, Alireza Ch. and a second man were hanged in the morning.

A man was hanged for murder in Isfahan, reported the Etemad. The man was identified as Mahmood (age not given).

Sources: IHR, 17/09/2009

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