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Zimbabwe Senate Approves Death Penalty Abolition Bill

1 month agoFri, 13 Dec 2024 12:44:23 GMT
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Zimbabwe Senate Approves Death Penalty Abolition Bill

The Death Penalty Abolition Bill has successfully passed through the Senate and is now awaiting President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s approval to become law, reported NewZimbabwe.com.

The last execution in Zimbabwe occurred nearly two decades ago, in 2005, and currently, there are over 60 prisoners on death row.

Mnangagwa has publicly opposed capital punishment, sharing his own experience of having a death sentence commuted to 10 years in prison for a crime committed during the 1960s.

After a lengthy debate in the Senate, the Bill was read for the second time with minimal amendments and subsequently read for the third time without any further changes before being passed.

Before the Senate’s approval, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi warned members about the sensitivity of the issue. He said:

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I stand before this House to seek the abolition of the death penalty. The deliberation will be emotional.

Not of this or that other human being but as part of human beings whose crimes are such of a heinous nature that our society is called to legislate that they must die if found guilty by the court of law.

Almost all cultures in Zimbabwe have marked out certain crimes to be deserving capital punishment. Our indigenous culture had less problems and messier than any foreign culture. The deserving of death has been perceived to be inhuman.

Culturally and historically, before colonisers came to our country, we had no death penalty. In vernacular, we would say “Mushonga wengozi kuiripa, kwete kuuraya”.

Our culture does not allow us to kill someone because they have murdered someone. In Shona we would say, “Ngozi inoripwa”. That is the point that I am trying to put across Mr. President.

Can the death penalty actually deter crimes or not? Also, let us not forget that the death penalty is irreversible.

Senator Sukai Tongogara described the death penalty abolition as a “landmark piece of legislation” aimed at fundamentally transforming Zimbabwe’s criminal justice system.

She said the Bill reflects a global trend toward abolishing capital punishment and highlighted the responsibility of legislators to uphold justice and human dignity.

Tongogara noted that 112 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, with 142 being abolitionist in law or practice.

By adopting this Bill, she argued, Zimbabwe would reinforce its commitment to human rights and position itself as a progressive nation.

However, Senator Linda Sibanda shared her personal connection to the death penalty abolition.

She revealed that her cousin, Hilary Muleya, had recently been murdered, and the perpetrator remains unknown.

Sibanda, who will soon attend her cousin’s funeral, conveyed her pain at the thought of sparing a murderer who shows no remorse for their actions, particularly towards vulnerable people. She said:

It is so painful to just spare a murderer who does not even show any remorse to a helpless young lady on the streets who just knocked off from work.

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20 Comments

Rurue · 1 month ago
signature ichingoiswa totanga Tshabangu nevanomutuma ne aisa signature yachoo futi hazvitenderwi
Comrade X · 1 month ago
Our all weather friend 🇨🇳 actually kill those who loot state coffers. I think Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 should introduce the firing squad for those who loot our state coffers. The corruption in Zimbabwe is frightening while in China it is minimal. To control corruption in our country the culprits should be shot in public, say the National Sports Stadium
Tintin · 1 month ago
even the murderers are inwardly laughing at the government
godobori · 1 month ago
muurai ngaaurawe
Susan · 1 month ago
Zimbabwean investigation is not good enough many people will be framed and executed based on lies. That case of that man who was framed that he raped her 9 year old daughter, the man was arrested whilst everyone the law was protective to that girl who was sleeping with her cousin then after birth they did a DNA test and discovered that her father has nothing to do with her daughters pregnancy. As if its not enough a same case happened in Bindura. In Zimbabwe for DNA test if there is a burn bus like what happened in West Nicklseson near Gwanda they relied on NUST university to identify the bodies this DNA testing must be part and parcel of a police branch. Death penalty is not good for Zimbabwe now. Instead of the police catching people w****bbed that Bank of 4 million US dollars, the police are busy casing people without jobs who are selling tomatoes on the streets. In this country you want death penalty.
Susan · 1 month ago
The problem with this death penalty is that it will only be done on men not women. As it is written on the constitution of Zimbabwe that only 21 year and above men can be executed. If people want it everyone women an men must be 50-50 on death row. Women also murder people like that lady who killed her children and separated with her husband. Women kill babies its murder and they say its infanticide she was not in her right state of mind to hell will that that's murder she also must be executed. Those girls who kidnapped that girl and bit her for hours are scot free only the older girls were arrested. The Zimbabwean law isn't fair to me. If a woman bits her husband her they say the husband was abuse, if the man is bitten by her wife they laugh and say how can you be bitten by a woman.
z · 1 month ago
l dont support death sentence mushonga kuripa
Ma Bigelow · 1 month ago
Watamba nemoto unofa ne Moto ndotoda Basa iroro
justice McMillan · 1 month ago
Jesus Christ said ' is it not written in law that you shall kill the killer but try the guilty ones.' Against this position he was killed having not killed anyone and the killer was liberated. Inarguably, it can't be any law other than of prospective assasins. .
Ediots · 1 month ago
common sense finally prevails
zig · 1 month ago
ED akauraya Ndebele people and is still killing innocent souls.That is why rati mutemo uyu ngaubviswe
ZimSketch · 1 month ago
with the increase in murder cases as well as armed robberies, I think this is not the right time to abolish death sentence
Wasu · 1 month ago
I think vaifanirwa kuonaa kt munhu wacho anenge auuraya sei pane uchizvidziviriraawoka from Intruders. accidentally end up killing. then kune vanorepaa end up killing the victim in cold blood.. such doesn't need any mess
chipoko · 1 month ago
auraya ngaaurawe.finish
Misogynist · 1 month ago
pamberi ne ZANU PF
GENERAL MANAKE MILES · 1 month ago
so the majority passed this inhumane Bill based on their emotions.....Nonsense!
hondo · 1 month ago
vese vari kuuraya vanhu ndiyani akambonzi necourt enda unoripa munhu wawakauyaya handisati ndamunzwa in, if u loose yr loved one to these thags then u will think twise
Hondo · 1 month ago
u will now see hw people will b murdered in Zim it will b like south africa, I support the penalty coz people should know that there actions will take them to the gallows

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