The country’s Permanent Secretary for Justice, Vimbai Nyemba, revealed that key officials, including legal and prison ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing ...

The former MDC activist and Tungamirai Madzore, another opposition activist, were arrested for allegedly killing a police ...

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

So, we just believe that [the] death penalty is not proper.” Several human rights groups have been calling for Zimbabwe to abolish the death penalty. Parvais Jabbar, executive director of the ...

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Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences of about 60 prisoners on death row ...

The United Nations on Thursday welcomed Zimbabwe's abolition of the death penalty, and called on other countries to do likewise, or to at least impose a moratorium on capital punishment ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...

The abolition of capital punishment in Zimbabwe has resulted in the resentencing of 48 inmates previously condemned to death.

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act 2024 on 31 December, Zimbabwe has become the 127th country in the world ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state with immediate effect. Rights group Amnesty hailed the decision as a ...