Penalties for murder
(Baonghean.vn) - Mr. Nguyen Van The, residing in Quy Chau district, asked: My relative was arrested for murder. According to current law, how is murder handled?
Reply:
People have the right to respect and protect their life and health. Therefore, those who violate this right will be handled according to the provisions of the law. Murder is a particularly serious crime. Article 123 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended and supplemented in 2017, stipulates the crime of murder as follows:
1. A person who commits murder in one of the following cases shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 12 to 20 years, life imprisonment or death:
a) Killing two or more people;
b) Murder of a person under 16 years of age;
c) Killing a woman known to be pregnant;
d) Killing a person on official duty or for the victim's official duty;
d) Killing one's grandparents, parents, foster parents, teachers;
e) Murder immediately before or after committing a very serious crime or an especially serious crime;
g) To commit or conceal another crime;
h) To take body parts of the victim;
i) Committing crimes in a barbaric manner;
k) By taking advantage of the profession;
l) By means capable of killing many people;
m) Hiring a murderer or murdering someone for hire;
n) Having a hooligan nature;
o) Organized;
p) Dangerous recidivism;
q) For base motives.
2. Committing a crime not falling under the cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article shall be punishable by imprisonment from 07 years to 15 years.
3. A person who prepares to commit this crime shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 01 year to 05 years.
4. The offender may also be banned from practicing a profession or doing certain jobs from 01 to 05 years, placed on probation or banned from residing for 01 to 05 years.
Thus, according to the above provisions, the penalty that can be applied to a person who commits murder is imprisonment from 12 to 20 years or life imprisonment and the highest penalty that can be applied is the death penalty. The specific penalty also depends on the investigation conclusion and the Court's decision.
A person who commits murder may also be banned from practicing a profession or doing certain jobs from 1 to 5 years, placed on probation or banned from residing for 1 to 5 years.
