The Bill to abolish the death penalty was informed by a nationwide survey carried out by the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and development partners in April this year, which showed that the majority of people no longer want capital punishment in the country’s legal statutes. The present Constitution in 2013 marked the…
Zimbabwe is set to conduct wide consultations aimed at gauging citizen views that would feed into proposed policy reforms around the death penalty. The country maintains the death penalty in its statutes but has refrained from any executions on prison inmates on the death row since 2005. Currently, the country has 62 death row inmates. …
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