AFP  The country stopped using firing squads in July 2011 in favour of "more humane" lethal injections but was unable to import the necessary drugs due to a European Union export ban. In May this year, On Tuesday the first death row prisoner, convicted murderer Nguyen Anh Tuan, was administered three injections "for anaesthesia, paralysing the nervous and muscle system, and stopping the heart", according to an online report in the Thanh Nien newspaper. It was not clear where the drugs used to execute the 27-year-old man, who was on death row for more than three years, were from. His body was returned to his family Tuesday for burial, the report added. It is believed the 117 comprise many prisoners who have exhausted all appeal avenues. "Following the case in Vietnamese authorities do not disclose the number of executions they carry out each year. Rights group Amnesty International recorded five executions in 2011 and said 23 new death sentences were handed out that year, mainly to drug traffickers. |
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