90 percent of executed prisoners’ bodies stolen

Chair of the NA's Legal Committee Le Thi Thu Ba

In this post, I would like to talk about the draft Law on Enforcement of Criminal Verdicts which presented at the ongoing National Assembly session. It also indicated that 90 percent of executed prisoners' bodies have stolen. The reason why I chose this article as a politics news is because it is a strange information. I never heard about this thing before. For Vietnamese, it might not be an unusual news for them. However, this draft law were presented on May 24.

In the news article, it was noted by Chair of the NA's Legal Committee Le Thi Thu Ba. She said after the prisoner being executed, the families of the death punishment will try every way to steal the bodies. In some provinces of Vietnam, the number of bodies that had stolen is up to 90 percent. Also, many NA deputies in this context said that the bodies of death penalty prisoners should be given back to their families. Therefore, the dead bodies of gangsters should not be released. The National Assembly deputies were debated on the relative merits of various forms of capital punishment such as firing squads, lethal injections or the electric chair. They also dicussed on the most humane way of execution, espectially the use of lethal injection firing squads or a combination of both ways. Recently, the death sentence is carried out by a firing squde, but the use of it puts undue pressure on law enforcement officers and the families of prisoners. Moreover, the legal injection was widely used in many countries, easily to carry out, and less costly. it would be at least a year for law enforcement officails to work out procedures for lethal injections. However, Dong Thap's deputy Nguyen Huu Nhon came up with aonther option which a condemned person's choice of using electric chair. Overall, the draft law had fail to mention forms of punishment for prisoners because it continued violating in the law. Lawmakers also discussed the labour and products made by prisoners as well as the treatment they needed when they completed their sentences.

Form my view point, I think all of the death punishment are violent. We should ban this action. Even it will cause less pain for the prisoners, it still cause people to death. To compare with Thailand, we doesn't have this kind of punishment for a long time. Because we think that this death discipline is not the best way to punish people. Most of the gangsters and murderers are not punish to death but we will keep them in the prison until his last breath.