Capital punishment scrapped for seven crimes

By Viet Chung, Bao Ha, Ha Phuong   April 11, 2016 | 03:36 am PT
Newly amended penal code, which will be effective from this July, regulates that instead of the death penalty, the highest punishment for mugging property; manufacturing or trading in fake foods/foodstuffs; surrendering to the enemy; disobeying orders; sabotaging facilities; and illegally storing narcotics will be 20 years imprisonment.
 
 
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