Capital punishment in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe highlighted in green on an otherwise grey map of borders of African countries.
The location of Zimbabwe in sub-saharan Africa.

Capital punishment was abolished in Zimbabwe for most crimes in 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 Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a law abolishing capital punishment in Zimbabwe.[2] Currently the death penalty may only be employed in a state of emergency.

References

  1. ↑ "Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)". Amnesty International. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging". Associated Press. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "The Death Penalty in Zimbabwe". Death Penalty Worldwide. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "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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