Zimbabwe’s minister of information, publicity and broadcasting services said if Parliament votes to abolish the death penalty, the 63 death row prisoners will be returned to court for resentencing.

Zimbabwe joins 113 countries worldwide, including 24 in Africa, that have fully abolished the death penalty. Globally, nations such as China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and the United States ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing the death penalty sentence in the penal code. Although the Southern ...

Zimbabwe’s president once faced the death penalty and is now set to abolish it Prisoners are closely guarded at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe on Jan. 31, 2014.

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa — who has not signed death warrants for those facing capital sentences since he came to power in 2017 — signed the death penalty ...

Zimbabwe abolished the death penalty on Tuesday when President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Death Penalty Abolition Act into law.. The new law eliminates the death penalty as a sentencing option ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has agreed to back a move in Parliament to abolish the death penalty, a punishment that was last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago.

Zimbabwe’s cabinet agreed to abolish the death penalty for murder offences almost two decades after its last execution. The cabinet on Tuesday approved the Memorandum on the Private Member’s ...

Zimbabwe is likely to abolish capital punishment, following a cabinet decision on 7 February 2024 . However, its parliament still has to endorse the. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s Senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty, a key step in scrapping a law last used in the southern African nation nearly 20 years ago. Zimbabwe ...