Capital punishment is the most harmful punishment available, so the state should only use it if no less harmful punishment is suitable; Other punishments will always enable the state to fulfil its ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept; The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years, ...

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Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the ...

Japan has executed a man who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in ...

Minister Ninh noted that Vietnam has steadily reduced the number of capital crimes over the years: from 44 in the 1985 Penal ...