Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic Commission for Justice and...
Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace has conducted a prolonged campaign against the death penalty but President Robert Mugabe amended the Constitution to block challenges to hanging of those left languishing on death row
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Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace has conducted a prolonged campaign against the death penalty but President Robert Mugabe amended the Constitution to block challenges to hanging of those left languishing on death row.
One of the latest three hanged in Zimbabwe [on October 5] had been on death row for more than five years.
The last public hangman died shortly after the last executions in April 1998, when two people were executed for killing a man whose organs were sold to a businessman for ritual sacrifice.
Mugabe's government has sent 66 to the gallows since independence in 1980.
One of the latest three hanged in Zimbabwe [on October 5] had been on death row for more than five years.
The last public hangman died shortly after the last executions in April 1998, when two people were executed for killing a man whose organs were sold to a businessman for ritual sacrifice.
Mugabe's government has sent 66 to the gallows since independence in 1980.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Africa News Service, 11/10/2001)
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