Capital punishment in Zimbabwe

Capital punishment was abolished in Zimbabwe in 2024. The country carried out its last execution in 2005. Zimbabwe abstained during the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution.

On 31 December 2024, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a law abolishing capital punishment in Zimbabwe.

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