Vietnam executed Death Row Prisoner Le Van Manh, despite claims from his family and lawyers that the evidence against him was not clear enough. Manh was sentenced to death in 2005 for allegedly raping and killing a female student. His family protested his innocence and said they would continue to do so. The European Union, along with the embassies of Canada, the United Kingdom, and Norway, issued a joint statement calling for a stay of execution and advocating for Vietnam to adopt a moratorium on all executions. This is the second joint statement on the death penalty in Vietnam in the last two months.

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