Zimbabwe was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review

Zimbabwe was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council. On the issue of capital punishment, the country’s delegation stated that abolition of the death penalty was under consideration as part of the process of writing a new Constitution, which started in 2010 and is supposed to be concluded in 2012. “Zimbabwe is exercising a de facto moratorium… Currently there is constitutional debate on whether the death penalty should be retained or abolished,” said the Government in its national report.