{"id":6998,"date":"2025-11-12T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:10:21","slug":"bo-hinh-phat-tu-hinh-voi-8-toi-danh-tu-ngay-01-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/bo-hinh-phat-tu-hinh-voi-8-toi-danh-tu-ngay-01-7-2025.html","title":{"rendered":"Abolition of the death penalty for eight offenses effective from July 1, 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 25, 2025, the National Assembly passed the Law Amending the 2025 Penal Code (Law No. 86\/2025\/QH15), which takes effect on July 1, 2025. This Law amends eight provisions related to the abolition of the death penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, the Law Amending the 2025 Penal Code abolishes the death penalty for the following eight offenses:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activities aimed at overthrowing the people\u2019s administration (Article 109);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabotage of material and technical foundations of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Article 114);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Producing or trading in counterfeit medicines for treatment or prevention (Article 194);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illegally transporting narcotic substances (Article 250);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sabotaging peace or waging an aggressive war (Article 421);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Espionage (Article 110);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embezzlement (Article 353);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking bribes (Article 354).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guidelines on the Conversion of the Death Penalty to Life Imprisonment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resolution No. 03\/2025\/NQ-HDTP of the Council of Judges of the Supreme People\u2019s Court provides guidance on the application of certain provisions regarding the conversion of the death penalty to life imprisonment, which takes effect from November 1, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, persons sentenced to death before July 1, 2025, who have not yet had their sentences carried out, shall have their death sentences converted to life imprisonment if they fall under one of the following categories:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persons suffering from terminal-stage cancer as prescribed at Point c, Clause 3, Article 40 of the Penal Code No. 100\/2015\/QH13, as amended and supplemented by Law No. 12\/2017\/QH14, Law No. 59\/2024\/QH15, and Law No. 86\/2025\/QH15 (hereinafter referred to as the Penal Code);<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persons sentenced to death for one of the following crimes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activities aimed at overthrowing the people\u2019s administration (Article 109); Espionage (Article 110); Sabotage of material and technical foundations of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Article 114); Producing or trading in counterfeit medicines for treatment or prevention (Article 194); Illegally transporting narcotic substances (Article 250); Embezzlement (Article 353); Taking bribes (Article 354); Sabotaging peace or waging an aggressive war (Article 421).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persons sentenced to death for the crimes of Illegally producing narcotic substances (Article 248) or Illegally trading in narcotic substances (Article 251), if they fall under one of the following circumstances:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quantity or volume of narcotic substances determined in the judgment for sentencing purposes is equal to or less than the minimum quantity or volume prescribed in Clause 5 of Article 248 or Clause 5 of Article 251 of the Penal Code; or<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quantity or volume of narcotic substances determined in the judgment for sentencing purposes is greater than the minimum quantity or volume prescribed in Clause 5 of Article 248 or Clause 5 of Article 251 of the Penal Code, but the offender was not the mastermind, leader, commander, and did not have two or more aggravating circumstances of criminal liability.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 25, 2025, the National Assembly passed the Law Amending the 2025 Penal Code (Law No. 86\/2025\/QH15), which takes effect on July 1, 2025. This Law amends eight provisions related to the abolition of the death penalty. Specifically, the Law Amending the 2025 Penal Code abolishes the death penalty for the following eight offenses: [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76,113,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taphalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}