Zambia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In January, ironically, the voice leading the call...
- News items in the archive
- 235
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Zambia is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 235 news items on Zambia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
MAY 13, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: TWO ARMY OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two Zambia Army officers have been sentenced to death by hanging for murder and aggravated robbery.
- APRIL 26, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Supreme Court judge Gregory Phiri has sentenced six men of Lusaka...
Supreme Court judge Gregory Phiri has sentenced six men of Lusaka...
APRIL 4, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: VICE PRESIDENT SHOCKED BY DEATH ROW CONDITIONS
Zambia's Vice-President Guy Scott visited the largest correctional facility in the country, Mukobeko
MARCH 8, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: WIFE KILLER TO HANG
In Zambia, a Mufumbwe farmer has been sentenced to death for hacking
- FEBRUARY 7, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: 2 GET DEATH PENALTY IN APPEAL CASE
In Zambia, the Supreme Court set aside a 30-year- jail sentence that was slapped
- JANUARY 24, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
the Kitwe High Court, in Zambia, sentenced Nickson Kaumba
the Kitwe High Court, in Zambia, sentenced Nickson Kaumba
- JANUARY 24, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
the Kitwe High Court Judge Isaac Chali, in Zambia
the Kitwe High Court Judge Isaac Chali, in Zambia, sentenced a 23-year-old man to death, for murdering a cyclist.
- JANUARY 1, 2012ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The Zambia Constitution of 1991, allows the death penalty in Part III
The Zambia Constitution of 1991, allows the death penalty in Part III
- DECEMBER 27, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: 279 INMATES ON DEATH ROW
the number of inmates on death row at Mukobeko Maximum Security Prison, Zambia, has swelled
- DECEMBER 21, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
unemployed men Felix Chimeza Moyo 31, of Mwami Border, and Abel Katankwa, 39, of Chipata, were sentenced to death by High Court Judge Christine Phiri in Chipata, Zambia. They allegedly strangled security guard Anderson Ngoma while breaking into a shop whe
DECEMBER 14, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
in Zambia, Judge Isaac Kamwendo of the Kitwe High Court sentenced Innocent
- DECEMBER 7, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: COURT UPHOLDS HEADMAN’S DEATH SENTENCE
Zambian Supreme Court justices Philip Musonda and Gregory Phiri, sitting in Ndola, upheld the death sentence of a 59-year-old village headman issued by the Kabwe High Court.
NOVEMBER 9, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: BABY KILLER TECHNICIAN TO HANG
the Kitwe High Court has sentenced a computer technician to death for killing his three
NOVEMBER 4, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: ZAMBIAN WOMAN TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Zambian woman was sentenced to death in Malaysia for trafficking in 770.2gm of methamphetamine
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING BABY
in Zambia, Kitwe High Court Judge Catherine Makungu sentenced Gift Chama...
- JUNE 30, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: LUSAKA TO HANG FOR AGGRAVATED ROBBERY
Judge Gregory Phiri of the Lusaka high court in Zambia sentenced Lackson Kacha, from Lusaka, to death by hanging on charges of aggravated robbery.
- JUNE 29, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: 3 MEN TO HANG FOR MURDER
Supreme Court Judge Gregory Phiri, sitting at the Lusaka High Court in Zambia, sentenced Fredy Lungu, Shadreck Musonda and Aaron Kanyanga from Chazanga Township to death by hanging for raping and murdering Katongo, 17, of the same township between Februar
- JUNE 7, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
the Daily Mail reported that President Rupiah Banda had commuted...
the Daily Mail reported that President Rupiah Banda had commuted...
- FEBRUARY 18, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MUMBWA MAN TO HANG
Supreme Court Judge Munyinda Wanki, sitting as a High Court Judge at the Lusaka High Court in Zambia...
- FEBRUARY 15, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING HIS STEPDAUGHTER, 6
Judge Gregory Phiri sentenced Joseph Mbewe to death by hanging for murdering by strangulation his six year-old step daughter Leticia Moyo on August 15, 2004, in Lusaka, Zambia. His motive was jealousy as the girl was not his biological daughter.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MAN TO HANG FOR KILLING NEWBORN DAUGHTER
in Zambia, Supreme Court judge Gregory Phiri...
- JANUARY 27, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: 5 TO HANG FOR MURDER
judge Munyinda Wanki of the Lusaka High Court in Zambia sentenced five people to death for murder, in two different cases.
- JANUARY 8, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: CHINA FREES ZAMBIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD
Zambian woman Mary Musyalike, who was sentenced to death by firing squad in China for trafficking in drugs, was released and returned to Zambia. Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) National Co-ordinator Edwin Sakala thanked the Zambian Government for
- JANUARY 8, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: MINER GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING CHINESE BOSS
Supreme Court judge Munyinda Wanki, sitting at the Lusaka High Court in Zambia, sentenced Pythias Chinene of Lusaka to death for murdering his Chinese boss Zong Tangku at Collum Coal Mine in Chongwe district on February 2, 2010.
- JANUARY 1, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The Zambia Constitution of 1991, allows the death penalty in Part III
The Zambia Constitution of 1991, allows the death penalty in Part III
- OCTOBER 14, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION IN ZAMBIA FOR ABOLITION AND MORATORIUM CONCLUDES
the mission in Zambia by Radical parliamentarians Elisabetta Zamparutti and Marco Perduca concluded with meetings with the foreign minister and the president of the Republic.
- OCTOBER 13, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION IN ZAMBIA CONTINUES FOR ABOLITION AND UN MORATORIUM
after participating yesterday at the “Death Has No Appeal” forum organised by the European Union in Lusaka, the Hands Off Cain delegation in Zambia (comprised of Radical parliamentarians Elizabetta Zamparutti and Marco Perduca) met the Zambian parliamenta
- OCTOBER 12, 2010ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION IN ZAMBIA FOR ABOLITION AND UN MORATORIUM
a delegation from Hands Off Cain is now in Zambia, the first step in a mission against the death
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2010ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIA: QUASH MY SENTENCE, DEATH ROW MAN APPEALS
Morgan Ngosa, 29, from Lusaka, appealed to the Zambian Supreme Court to have his death sentence for murdering Bylon Musonda on April 10, 2007, in Lusaka, quashed.
- JUNE 25, 2010MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
ZAMBIAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN MALAYSIA
Malaysia's High Court sentenced a Zambian national to death by hanging after he was found guilty of attempting to bring almost 160 grams of drugs into the country in 2006.