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On death row in Malawi, Byson Kaula was nearly executed three times – but on each occasion the hangman stopped work before hanging all the prisoners on his list. So he survived… until the country stopped executing people altogether.
A GROUP of lawyers doing public interest litigation for free have taken the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) to court challenging its decision to deny them access to about 90 death row inmates at Harare Remand Prison who they intend to provide legal counsel in defence of their right to life.
By Robin Muchetu While for many Zimbabweans, 1990 is remembered for the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (Esap), for Edmos Hadebe, then a 25-year-old young man who was enjoying life as an officer with the Zimbabwe National Army, it was the year to forget after he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Edmos […]
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.
GABORONE – A Zimbabwean national, Gerald Dube, who killed his employer, two children and a maid eight years ago, has become the first man to be hanged under the leadership of President Ian Khama. The Department of Prisons and Rehabilitation spokesperson, Senior Superintendent Mr. Wamorena Ramolefe, confirmed in an interview with The Gazette that Dube […]