Ignoring appeals from human rights groups, Vietnam sentenced at least 100 people to death up to December 8 and the country's get-tough-on-crime policy showed no signs of letting up

Vietnam voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva

The European Union called on Vietnam to improve its human rights record as the communist nation's parliament lashed out at criticism from the European Parliament and the US Congress

Phan Hoai Linh, a 36 year old Vietnamese man convicted of child rape, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam's central city of Danang

An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld a death sentence for Nguyen Thanh Long, 52, convicted last year of raping two girls

The Montagnard Foundation (MFI) accused Vietnam of having executed three members of a Protestant church in the Central Highlands and said others were arrested in several security operations

The Montagnard Foundation website reported the torture and execution of a Degar Montagnard Christian by Vietnamese police

A Vietnamese court sentenced to death Denchai Nuntipanich, a 33 year old Thai national, after convicting him of participating in an illegal football gambling ring and killing a punter to avoid paying out a 45,000 dollar bet, a court official said

The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of Long An sentenced to death Tran Thi Ngoc Yen, female, for trafficking heroin from Cambodia, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said

A court in Vietnam has sentenced a woman to death for embezzlement and said two former vice ministers of agriculture would both be jailed for three years after a trial that exposed state corruption

Nguyen Thi Yen, a 41 year old woman convicted of drug trafficking, was sentenced to death in northern Vietnam

Two women, Hoang Tu Lien, 43, and Tran Thi My Ha, 30, were sentenced to death at the end of a four-day trial in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam

Ha Thu Thuy, a 35-year-old woman, was sentenced to death in Vietnam's southern province of Kien Giang

Le Thi Kim Phuong, a 44 year old Vietnamese business woman, came one step closer to facing the firing squad after the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court rejected her appeal against the death sentence for running a fraudulent investment scheme

An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld the death sentence for corruption given to Truong Thi Thanh Huong, the director of a state-run company in Vietnam

Seven opium traffickers were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Vietnam's northern province of Tuyen Quang and 40 others from the drug network were jailed as part of a government crackdown, court officials said

Ngo Minh, 33, committed suicide after being sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam's central province of Khanh Hoa, police said

Tran The Trung, 49, a Cambodian citizen of Vietnamese origin, and Quach Kim Thuan, 41, were executed by firing squad at dawn at the Thu Duc execution ground in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for drug trafficking

Ngo Minh, 33, and Cao Ton, 45, were sentenced to death in Vietnam after being found guilty by a court in the central province of Khanh Hoa of trafficking more than 32

Than Nhan Bo, 44, Duong Ngo Luyen, 46, and Trang A Co, 26, were sentenced to death by a court in Vietnam's northern province of Bac Giang at the conclusion of a two-day trial

At the execution ground at Tam Hop Hamlet, Vietnam, nearly a thousand people gathered to witness the executions of Ms Cao Thi Lien, also known as Gai and Tran Vinh Sanh, also known as Son

Dang Xuan Hai and Tran Van Thuong, both aged 38, were put to death by firing squad at dawn in the Vietnamese capital's Cau Nga execution site

Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern province of Thanh Hoa

Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province, Vietnam, was sentenced to death for trafficking heroin from Laos and China

Tran Kim Tuyen, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Tay Ninh province

The People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced four drug traffickers to death as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said

A court in Vietnam's southern Long An province sentenced four men and a woman to death for running a drug-trafficking network that smuggled heroin and opium into the country from Cambodia

Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung Lam and Vu Thi Tien, a woman, were sentenced to death by the Ha Tinh People's Court for running a drug-trafficking network that smuggled heroin and opium into the country from Laos

Three drug traffickers were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Tay as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade, court officials said

Vu Xuan Lich and Tong Van Loi, leaders of a 16 member ring that smuggled heroin from Laos to Vietnam, were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Lai Chau province in Vietnam

Tran Minh Cong, 31, convicted of trafficking 1

Nguyen Van Toai, a 64-year-old Vietnamese man from Nghe An province near the Lao border was sentenced to death by firing squad after being convicted of opium trafficking

An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug production was sentenced to death in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City

The People's Court in Ba Ria Vung Tau sentenced to death Pham Van Dzung, found guilty of trading and possessing a total of 33

Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking opium and heroin under Vietnam's tough anti-drug laws

A court in northern Vietnam sentenced six men to death for trafficking nearly 90 kilograms of heroin

The trial of twenty five defendants in the largest drug trafficking ring to be detected in Vietnam's northern mountainous Lai Chau province began

Three Vietnamese men were condemned to death in Vietnam's central province of Nghe An after being convicted of trafficking drugs from Laos, officials said

Four drug traffickers were executed by firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, court officials said

Six drug traffickers were sentenced to death in southern Vietnam as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade

A Vietnamese court condemned Pham Van Thuan to death for trafficking 8 kilograms of heroin from neighbouring Laos into Vietnam, said a court official in Nam Dinh province, 100 kilometres south of Hanoi

An ex-deputy police chief in southern Vietnam who shot a Communist Party cadre with a machine gun during a meeting to punish him for being disorganised had been executed, officials said

Nguyen Van Thu, a 28 year old unemployed man, was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a motorbike taxi driver in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Tay

Two Vietnamese men were executed at dawn by firing squad at an execution site in Thot Not town in southern Can Tho province

Vu Quang Hiep, 28, was sentenced to death by a court in Hanoi for shooting dead a rival gangster on behalf of a friend trying to reclaim a debt

Pham Van Khoe, 54, and Nguyen Thanh Quy, 22, were executed by firing squad at dawn at the Thu Duc execution ground in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for murder

Nguyen Tat Tung, a 31 year old farmer, was executed in northern Vietnam for stabbing to death his father and younger brother following a dispute over family inheritance, state media said

Ngo Van Da, a 27 year old unemployed man, was sentenced to death in Vietnam for killing his brother-in-law and the man's two children after he thought they were encouraging his wife to file for divorce

Nguyen The Thang, 27, was executed in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Tay for killing a taxi driver in May 2002

Truong Quoc Viet, 35, was put to death by firing squad in Vietnam's central province of Lam Dong, a clerk at the Lam Dong People's Court said

Hoang Thanh Voi, a 54 year old former tax inspector, was sentenced to death by firing squad by a court in Vietnam's northern Bac Giang province for killing his mistress after she broke off their relationship

Pham Tan Luong, 20, was sentenced to death by Gia Lai People's Court for murder

Pham Thanh Tuan, a 40 year old man who pretended to be a doctor of traditional medicine, was executed in southern Vietnam for fatally poisoning four people and robbing them

Tran Van Khoa, a 50-year old Vietnamese man convicted of the murder of his grandfather, was executed in the central Binh Dinh province

Nguyen Huu Hau, 23, was sentenced to death in southern Vietnam for killing a 16-year-old girl after she repeatedly spurned his advances

Three men were executed in Vietnam for murder as part of the government's ongoing crackdown against violent crime

Nguyen Van Dung was sentenced to death by the People's Court in Haiphong for murdering two children on June 3, 2003 while looting their house in northern Vietnam

Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, on the Thu Duc killing fields, for beating to death another prisoner in October 1995

A court in Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai handed down the death penalty to Dinh Quang Tuan for stabbing and beating to death his neighbour, Kieu Thi Phung, in June 2003, while trying to rob her motorbike and jewellery

Dinh Son Hai, a 22 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced to death after being convicted by a court in southern Binh Duong province of murdering his friend Ho Viet Quoc in December 2002, in order to steal his motorcycle and jewellery

Mai Viet Phong, a 43 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced to death by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court after being convicted of organising and carrying out five armed robberies, which severely wounded five people, between February and April 2001

Chau Thanh Tam was sentenced to death by a court in the southern province of Dong Thap for killing Nguyen Thi Hong, mother of his lover, in February 2003 after she turned down their marriage proposal

Ho Van Nong, a 19-year-old Vietnamese farmer, was sentenced to death by firing squad by a court in the central province of Quang Tri after being convicted of raping and murdering a woman to steal her money

Nguyen Thanh Vu, 27, was sentenced to death by the provincial people's court in the southern Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, Vietnam, after being found guilty of murdering and raping a seven-year-old girl

Nguyen Thanh Vu, a 27 year old man convicted of raping and murdering a seven year old girl in southern Vietnam, was sentenced to death by the provincial People's Court in the southern Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang

Dinh Huu Huy, 26, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted of in 2002 of murdering a motorcycle taxi driver in order to steal his vehicle, state media said

Ho Van Xuan, 46, a man jailed in 1979 for belonging to a former South Vietnamese "reactionary organization", was sentenced to death in Vietnam for scalping his brother-in-law

A Ho Chi Minh City court, Vietnam, imposed a death sentence for murder and robbery on Trang Hoang Thai, 20

A Vietnamese court turned down an appeal against execution lodged by two men sentenced to death for murdering a student in October 1999, state media reported

Nam Cam, 56, known as Vietnam's most powerful mafia boss, was sentenced to death, together with five of his henchmen, following a trial that exposed a web of corruption at the heart of the country's political system

Cao Duc Bao, a 42-year-old Vietnamese man, was executed by firing squad in Hanoi after being convicted of murdering his friend during a drunken quarrel

It was reported that Nguyen Huu Toan, "a Vietnamese drug addict", was sentenced to death for murdering a friend "to steal and sell his jewellery to pay for his next fix", a Ho Chi Minh City court said

Vu Van Tam, a 22-year-old unemployed Vietnamese man, was sentenced to death by firing squad after being convicted of murdering a schoolboy to steal his bicycle

Chu Van Hoc, 33, was executed by firing squad in Hanoi

The People's Court in the southern business capital of Ho Chi Minh City was asked by the prosecuting panel to hand down death sentences to Nam Cam and four of his lieutenants for murder

It was reported that the local court in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang had sentenced to death Phan Thanh Hung, 24, for raping and killing a woman and stealing her jewellery

A Vietnamese man, Nong Quoc Luong, 25, convicted of murdering a friend to steal his motorcycle was blindfolded, tied to a stake and executed by firing squad in Hanoi

A man convicted of murdering two of his cousins and seriously wounding a woman was executed by firing squad in northern Vietnam

That a Vietnamese man who raped and murdered a 48-year-old woman was sentenced to death, Agence France-Presse reported

Two men convicted on murder charges were executed by firing squad in Vietnam's capital, state media reported

Communist Vietnam launched the trial of 155 suspected gangsters in a showpiece trial aimed at reassuring investors the government is serious about cracking down on crime

A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a motorbike taxi driver in the central province of Lam Dong

A convicted murderer was executed by firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, court officials said

Three people were sentenced to death for murder in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City and neighbouring Can Tho province

Tran Hoai Nam, 27, and Nguyen Van Phi, 28, were shot in Ho Chi Minh City for producing over 50,000 dollars of fake banknotes

Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of the Dong Nai Company, a water bottling operation, was given the death penalty by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court

Tang Minh Phung, 47, a businessman, and 60-year-old banker Pham Nhat Hong were shot dead by firing squad in southern Ho Chi Minh City after their appeals for clemency were rejected by President Tran Duc Luong in May 2003

It was reported that a local court in Vietnam's southern Dong Nai province imposed the death penalty on Hoang Van Nam for trading large sums of counterfeit money

Nguyen Ton Van, former director of Quoc Binh private enterprise, a trading company, was sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City for "defrauding and appropriating public property"

Five people, including a woman, were shot dead in front of thousands of people in a suburb of southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh city

Vietnamese public security vice minister Le The Tiem was reported as saying that the death penalty was an effective method of preventing drugs production and trafficking and that the country would continue to use the punishment for those crimes

The Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment for two Cambodian nationals, according to official sources

Two drug traffickers on death-row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong, state media said

Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong

The Ho Chi Minh City Court announced that the head of one of the biggest smuggling rings to be found in Vietnam, Do Thi My Phuong, a 45 year old woman, received a Presidential commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment

Lien Khui Thin and Nguyen Tuan Phuc, respectively former director and chairman of executive board of Epco company, had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, court officials said

Four people on death-row in Vietnam, including Le My Linh, an Australian citizen of Vietnamese origin, had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment

Two men on death row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong

Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong granted amnesty to five people on death row, state media said

An appeal court in Vietnam commuted the death sentence handed down on Nguyen Ton Van, a local businessman found guilty of fraud, to life-imprisonment, state media said

Forty-nine people on death row in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City were expected to be executed soon, after their appeals for presidential clemency had been rejected, state media said

In an article about female jail wardens Bui Hong Hanh, a 35-year-old warden, was quoted as saying that one need have an "iron nerve" to be capable of witnessing the shock of the prisoners facing the death penalty