Zimbabwe has announced that it has abolished death penalty in its statues nearly 20 years after it carried out its last execution, a top government official said, AA reported.
Martin Rushwaya, the chief secretary to the cabinet, said in a government decree that President Emerson Mnangagwa approved the law this week after the bill had gone through the Senate.
With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act 2024, the Southern African nation has become the 127th country in the world to abolish death penalty.
The country has about 60 prisoners currently on death row.
Mnangagwa once faced death penalty in the 1960s during the war of liberation known as “Chimurenga.”
About 24 African countries have fully abolished the death penalty, according to Amnesty International.
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