19 March 2004 :

Luong Van Thanh, 22, and Nguyen Van Hoa, 48, were executed at dawn by firing squad at Hanoi's Cau Nga, Vietnam, for drug trafficking.
Thanh was sentenced to death in August 2003 after being caught trafficking 93.5 kilogrammes (205 pounds) of opium from the northwestern province of Son La, which borders Laos.
Hoa, who belonged to the same network, was handed the death penalty at the same trial for trafficking nearly six kilos of heroin from Son La.