Death Penalty News

The HCMC court sentenced Van Kinh Duong and four accomplices to death on Monday for producing 124 kilos of narcotics. The court found Duong, 39, Nguyen Duc Ky Nam, 52, Le Van Mang, 33, Pham Bao Quan, 37, and Le Huong Giang, 32, guilty of "illegal production of narcotics." Other defendants in the case, Nguyen Thu Huyen, Nguyen Ba Thanh, Pham Thi Thu Huyen and Nguyen Dac Huy got life sentences. Vu Hoang Anh Ngoc, Duong’s girlfriend, will spend 16 years in jail for "illegal storing of narcotics." The two have a four-year-old child together. Duong was also given a life sentence for trading narcotics, nine years for fraudulent appropriation of assets, four years for escaping from detention facilities and two years for counterfeiting documents and seals of agencies. The hardened criminal was first jailed in 2008, when he was charged with robbery and storing narcotics. In 2010, when his sentence was still in effect, Duong broke out of prison along wi...

Iran Human Rights, June 28: Two prisoners were hanged publicly in Robat Karim (near Tehran) early this morning Thursday June 28. According to the Mehr news agency one of the prisoners was convicted of drug trafficking while the other prisoner was convicted of rape. The prisoners were hanged in Davoudieh square of this city in fron of several hundred people. At least 12 people have been hanged publicly in June 2012 in Iran. Three of the United Nation’s Special Rapporteurs published earlier today a statement condemning the executions in Iran. The statement also underscored the high number of public executions in Iran saying:  “Executions in public add to the already cruel, inhuman and degrading nature of the death penalty and can only have a dehumanizing effect on the victim and a brutalizing effect on those who witness the execution”. Source: Iran Human Rights , June 28, 2012 Photos of the execution (source: Iran-Resist )