death penalty

Government is set to institute public consultations in order to determine whether the death penalty should be struck off from the statute books. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Zimbabwe but despite its legality, Zimbabwe has not…
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Sierra Leonean lawmakers voted to abolish the death penalty Friday, becoming the latest African country to move towards banning capital punishment.
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White supremacist Dylann Roof, who carried out a massacre against nine black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015, is appealing his death penalty sentence, which lawyers say did not take into account his mental illness.
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Texas on Wednesday executed a man who murdered three family members, following a trial in which a bailiff wore a tie depicting a syringe in an apparent reference to the lethal injection procedure.
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Saudi Arabia’s attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh on Thursday.
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Government wants to abolish the death penalty with plans already afoot to push for debate on Constitutional amendments to end death by hanging in line with international trends to do away with capital punishment, a Cabinet Minister has…
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Zimbabwe is working on abolishing the death penalty and Cabinet is expected to receive presentations in due course, Justice, legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said.
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A court in Sudan has sentenced to death a young woman for killing her husband after he allegedly raped her as his male relatives restrained her.
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Jacob Mafume - President Robert Mugabe’s call for reconsideration of the death penalty is unwarranted and a reflection of someone who is not in sync with the world we live in.
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By Lloyd Gumbo Zimbabwe last week pardoned 10 inmates who were on the death row after they requested for Presidential clemency while the remaining 80 will also survive the gallows if Government resolves to completely abolish capital…
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