The drug trafficking crime from the practice of Dong Nai Province (Part II)

The crime of illegal narcotic trafficking specified in Article 251 of the Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017) is one of the crimes which was separated from the integrated crime (illegal storage, transport, deal or appropriation of narcotic substances) prescribed in Article 194 of the Penal Code 1999 (amended and supplemented in 2009). Among thirteen crimes in the chapter on narcotic-related crimes, there are 03 crimes with the death penalty, including the crime of illegally deal of narcotic substances. Compared this crime with a total of eithteen crimes in the 2015 Penal Code (amended and supplemented in 2017) with the death penalty stipulation, it could be seen the Government's assessment of the particularly dangerous level of illegal narcotic trafficking to society. Among the three types of narcotic-related crimes with the death penalty, illegal trafficking in narcotic substance has the largest number of criminal cases in general and the application of the death penalty in particular in Dong Nai province. Within the research scope, the author analyzes several theoretical issues and legal provisions on the crime of illegal narcotic trafficking; analyzes regulations on the offenses of illegal trafficking in narcotic substances to the death penalty and the practice of applying the death penalty to this crime in Dong Nai province in the period 2016-2020.