How Tsvangirai escaped hangman

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai faced the possibility of being hanged after a High Court judge passed a guilty verdict on charges he attempted to assassinate President Robert Mugabe in the highly-publicised 2005 treason trial.

However, the guilty verdict was reversed after assessors failed to agree with the judge and Tsvangirai was subsequently acquitted.
Conviction could have resulted in capital punishment.

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