Death Penalty Bill awaits ED’s signature

BOTH Houses of Parliament have passed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill in a rare show of solidarity between Members of Parliament and Senators from the ruling Zanu PF and opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC).

The Bill to abolish the death penalty, which has been condemned the world over for violating human dignity, sailed through both the National of Assembly and Senate and awaits presidential assent.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who survived the hangman’s noose on a technicality following his arrest during the liberation struggle, has publicly denounced the death penalty.

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