Capital punishment in Zimbabwe

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Capital punishment was abolished in Zimbabwe 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]

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