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By Gift Phiri President Robert Mugabe has commuted the sentences of 10 of the country’s death row inmates to life imprisonment. The 10 prisoners, condemned to death, have been spared their lives although government very rarely carries the sentences out — with the last execution taking place in 2004. “Until three weeks ago, we had […]
By Daniel Nemukuyu At least 16 death row inmates, who have spent between four and 18 years awaiting their fate, have challenged their pending executions on the basis that the current legal framework does not allow anyone to be hanged. The prisoners also argue that they have overstayed on death row, a situation they say […]
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he will not sign death warrants for 97 murder convicts on death row because the sentence is too harsh and must be done away with. Although the Constitution provides for the penalty, Minister Mnangagwa said he still believed that it was unfair.
Government is yet to recruit a hangman, a year after advertising for the job and has “no appetite” to execute inmates on the death row, Justice and Legal Affairs deputy minister, Obert Gutu said yesterday. Zimbabwe last had executions, eight years ago.