Capital punishment in Zimbabwe
Capital punishment was a legal penalty in Zimbabwe until 2024.[1][2] The country carried out its last execution in 2005.[3] Zimbabwe abstained during the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution.[4]
On 31 December 2024, President Emerson Mnangagwa signed a law abolishing capital punishment in Zimbabwe.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)". Amnesty International. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging". Associated Press. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
- ^ "The Death Penalty in Zimbabwe". Death Penalty Worldwide. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "UN Resolution for a Universal Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty" (PDF). Ensemble contre la peine de mort. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
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