Capital punishment was a legal penalty in Zimbabwe until 2024. The country carried out its last execution in 2005. Zimbabwe abstained during the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution.
On 31 December 2024, President Emerson Mnangagwa signed a law abolishing capital punishment in Zimbabwe.
References
- "Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)". Amnesty International. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ "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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