On April 13, at the Government's headquarters, the Politburo member, the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the thematic meeting in April 2025 to discuss ideas on 4 law projects and 2 draft resolutions.
Presentation of the Project of the Criminal Code (amended), General Luong Tam Quang - Member of the Politburo, Minister of Public Security - stated, the draft amended articles related to the penalty penalty, according to VOV.
Accordingly, expected to abolish the "death penalty" and replace it with "life imprisonment" not to consider reducing the sentence, still ensuring the isolation of offenders out of social life at 8/18 crimes of the current Criminal Code, including:
Crime of activities to overthrow the people's government; Crime of destroying production facilities and techniques of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; crimes of production and trading of fake goods are cure and prevention; illegal transportation of narcotics; Crime of destroying peace caused wars of aggression; spy crimes; Crime of property embezzlement; Receiving bribes.
The Project of the Criminal Code (amended) also supplemented the provisions that the Court may declare the execution of the death penalty for 2 years for the convicted person at the time of the death sentence, in order to create conditions to encourage the convicted person to actively overcome the consequences and compensate for damage.
In addition to the case of not executing the death penalty for people with end -stage cancer, HIV -infected people have turned to AIDS.
Expand the scope of criminal liability of the act of preparing for crimes against 6 crimes: crime of trafficking, trafficking in people under 16 years old; crime of arrest or detention of people illegally; crimes of producing and trading fake goods; crimes of producing and trading fake goods are food and food additives; illegal production of narcotics ... to suit the practical situation of the fight against crime against these crimes.
Additional imprisonment penalties for up to 30 years, life imprisonment, not considering the reduction of the sentence are the main penalties. Supplement the provisions on the elimination of criminal liability, in case of new technological testing, to meet the requirements of innovation in the spirit of Resolution 57.
Raise imprisonment and money for crimes and some acts to ensure deterrence; improve the effectiveness of crime prevention and control; promptly protect the legitimate rights and interests of the State, citizens ...
The Ministry of Public Security proposed to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and comments through the Penal Code project (amended) in the order and procedures for shortened at the 9th session, the XV National Assembly took place in May May.
Speaking, the Politburo Member, Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said that the history of revising the Criminal Code has reduced the death penalty for 44 crimes to 30 crimes, then to 28 crimes and the nearest amendment is 18 crimes.
This revision continues to remove the "death penalty" by "life imprisonment" not to consider reducing the sentence is sufficient.
Particularly for the charges of embezzlement and crime of accepting bribes, Standing Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh analyzed: "Crime that takes money as a means and the purpose of the crime, the penalty, not the imprisonment penalty. The crime of embezzlement and bribery is the purpose of money. So how to get out of money, not the death penalty. The principle is so, how to collect all the money.
