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

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

The country becomes the 30th African nation to end capital punishment. Fr. Tryvis Moyo, Secretary-General of Zimbabwe's ...

Zimbabwe has recently banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...