Y35.5Legal execution
Code usage status
Primary diagnosis
Must not be used as the primary diagnosis
Apply only when it matches the confirmed diagnosis and the documented clinical record.
Specificity
Complete code in the classification
Use when the diagnosis matches and no exclusion applies.
- Group Y35-Y36
- Legal intervention and operations of war
- Official Vietnamese name
- Hành hình theo luật
- Additional WHO coding guidance
- Any execution performed at the behest of the judiciary or ruling authority [whether permanent or temporary], such as: asphyxiation by gas beheading, decapitation (by guillotine) capital punishment electrocution hanging poisoning
Related Y35 codes
Y35
Legal intervention
Y35.0
Legal intervention involving firearm discharge
Y35.1
Legal intervention involving explosives
Y35.2
Legal intervention involving gas
Y35.3
Legal intervention involving blunt objects
Y35.4
Legal intervention involving sharp objects
Y35.6
Legal intervention involving other specified means
Y35.7
Legal intervention, means unspecified
Clinical record checklist
View coding guide →- Confirm that the code matches the final documented diagnosis.
- Use one primary-diagnosis code and record only relevant additional conditions.
- Review Ministry indicators, inclusions, exclusions and notes.
- Do not infer a diagnosis beyond the clinical record.
2026 regulatory basis
Indicators are taken from columns 24–29 of the classification accompanying Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT, cross-referenced with Decision 1849/QĐ-BYT and Official Dispatch 4059/BYT-BH.
