Unconstitutional sentence juveniles life prison

Ha Van Thanh, 38, Lo Thi Lap, 45 and Ha Thi Thanh, 41, were sentenced to death, while Hoang Van Hung, 23 and Nguyen Van Hieu, 43, were sentenced to life in prison. Bui Minh Quang, 18, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Another suspect, Tran Phuong Lan of Hanoi, is still on the run. In July last year, a police raid on Thanh’s house in Muong Sang Commune, Moc Chau District, netted over 7.6 kg of heroin and meth, prosecutors said. Further investigation led to the arrests of Quang, Hung, Lap, Thanh and Hieu. All of them were charged with trading drugs. Quang was found to have traded over 21 kg of heroin and meth, Thanh, 6.2 kg; Lap, 3.5 kg; Thanh, 3 kg; and Hieu, 2.5 kg. Despite the country having some of the world's toughest drug laws, including death for smuggling and trading, drug operations continue to be busted almost every week. … [Read more...] about 3 get death, 2 get life in northern Vietnam

A 45-year-old man convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing of a Reno man at a Lake Tahoe casino has been sentenced to life in prison plus eight to 20 years for use of a deadly weapon.The Record-Courier reports Douglas County District Judge Tod Young ordered Jose Rodriquez-Quezada Friday to serve the sentences consecutively for the October 2017 death of Kevin Edwards.If he’s ever released on parole, he will be deported for being in the country illegally.Prosecutors say he stabbed or slashed Edwards 30 times at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Statement. He claimed he was acting in self-defense. He originally was charged with first-degree murder but the jury determined he did not act with premeditation and found him guilty instead of second-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon.___Information from: Gardnerville Record-Courier, http://www.recordcourier.com … [Read more...] about Life in prison for killer of Reno man at Tahoe hotel-casino

By Duc Hung  &nbspOctober 12, 2019 | 07:00 pm GMT+7 Nguyen Thi Hao stands in court on October 11, 2019 for causing forest fire in Ha Tinh Province. Photo by VnExpress/Canh Hoang. A Ha Tinh court Friday sentenced a local woman to two years in jail for inadvertently setting fire to seven hectares of forest. Nguyen Thi Hao, 36, was found guilty of "breaching regulations on fire prevention and fighting," in burning grass near the forest, a crime that carries up to eight years’ imprisonment under Vietnam’s Penal Code. However, the defendant was entitled to leniency as she declared her mistake honestly, the court ruled. According to the indictment, Hao was burning grass on a rice field near the forest in Son Trung Ward of the central Ha Tinh Province, when strong winds caused the fire to spread to the forest in the morning of June 27. Hao and several other people in the area tried to put out the fire but failed. She was arrested on July 10. The same day, … [Read more...] about Woman gets two years in prison for sparking forest fire

A man who drove his car into several people outside Britain’s Parliament in a bid “to kill as many people as possible” has been sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted murder.During a hearing at London’s Central Criminal Court, Judge Maura McGowan said Salih Khater must serve a minimum of 15 years for the August 2018 crime that injured three people.Khater was convicted in July of driving his car into people outside Parliament before it collided with a security barrier guarded by police.The judge said the 30-year-old Khater’s “undoubted intention was to kill as many people as possible and by doing so spread fear and terror.” … [Read more...] about British man gets life for driving into people by Parliament

Authorities still don’t know why a Lemon Grove man got so angry after an argument that he came back and stabbed the other man to death last year.Gustavo Flores, 39, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for killing 47-year-old Juan Martinez, with an additional year in prison for an unrelated, previous case involving an assault with a deadly weapon.Flores turned himself in a week after the June 21, 2018 stabbing and pleaded guilty a year later to voluntary manslaughter and personal use of a deadly weapon.A dozen of Martinez’ family members showed up in El Cajon Superior Court to hear Judge Robert Amador impose the sentence that was agreed upon when Flores changed his plea to guilty. The oldest of the victim’s two teenage sons told the judge their father “was everything to us,” a man who advised them and took care of them.“I still don’t understand why you didn’t think twice before you did what you did,” said Juan Martinez, … [Read more...] about Lemon Grove man gets prison for fatal stabbing after an argument