Vietnam sentences former police officer to death for trading drug

Indonesia on Monday sentenced a French drug smuggler to death by firing squad, in a shock verdict after prosecutors had asked for a long prison term.

A Malaysian court has rejected a Vietnamese woman’s appeal to set aside her death sentence for drug trafficking.

The application of the death penalty is a sovereign nation’s prerogative and Vietnam only applies it for very grave crimes.

Three people received death sentences for drug trafficking in Hanoi Monday while a fourth got a life sentence because she has a child.

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug trafficking charges on Monday after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too lenient, a ruling likely to deepen a diplomatic rift between Ottawa and Beijing.

Two separate trials sentenced 13 Vietnamese drug dealers to death on Friday, making them among the toughest in years.

A HCMC court sentenced five members of a drug gang to death and gave life sentences to four others on Thursday.

Court rejects defendant’s self-defense appeal as well as pleas filed by victims’ families to commute the death sentence. 

Dang Van Hien and accomplices shot and killed three people sent by a company to raze the land he used to grow crops.

He was found guilty of instructing four men to traffic more than 100 kilos of heroin. All have received death sentences.

The trans-national ring is believed to have trafficked nearly half a ton of heroin over a decade.

The 83-year-old woman had already been jailed for trafficking heroin.

The ring was accused of smuggling around 1,871 kg of heroin in total.