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Life imprisonment unconstitutional
04 Aug 2015 at 10:08hrs | Views
A jailbird condemned to life imprisonment over 20 years ago has approached the Constitutional Court contesting the punishment on the grounds that it is torture, inhuman and degrading treatment which violates the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
Obedia Makoni was given a life sentence in April 1995 for murdering his girlfriend after finding her being intimate with another man.
Through his lawyer, Tendai Biti, Makoni is now seeking an order declaring the life sentence without judicial review or parole unconstitutional.
He wants the court to nullify sections 112 and 115 of the Prisons Act (Chapter 7:11), which he argues contravene sections 51 and 53 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
Source - the herald
