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Zimbabwe gets praise on death penalty stance
Zimbabwe has voted in favour of a United Nations (UN) resolution calling for the global abolition of the death penalty, further demonstrating the country's commitment to limiting the use of capital pu...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:16hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abolishes the hanging of men
Zimbabwean government records show that there are more than 60 prisoners on death row.Sixty-two death row inmates in Zimbabwe could have their sentences commuted to life in prison when the gov...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 20:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Patriot Act smuggles in death penalty'
There is growing concern that an amendment to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, also referred to as the Patriot Act, is attempting to reintroduce the death penalty through indirect means...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Commute death sentence to prison terms'
A RECENT High Court ruling condemning Tapiwa Makore Senior and accomplice Tafadzwa Shamba to death for the brutal murder of then seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Junior has once again revived debate on th...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to be consulted on death penalty
Zimbabwe is set to conduct wide consultations aimed at gauging citizen views that would feed into proposed policy reforms around the death penalty.The country maintains the death penalty in it...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo seeks heroine status for Dupute
BULAWAYO Province has requested a national heroine status for Nellie Dupute who was laid to rest on Saturday at Lady Stanley Cemetery.A former death row inmate at Chikurubi Prison after she wa...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism
The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of th...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 25 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Death row inmate Jindu loses appeal
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the death sentence by Bulawayo "killer" Rodney Tongai Jindu who is on death row for the callous murder of his two friends in 2017. Jindu (27) ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Meet Khami's longest serving inmate
HE was condemned at birth to a life of hardship after being christened Mhlupheki, which is Ndebele for "the one who struggles". True to his name, Mhlupheki Ngwenya (47) has suffered, living a ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
General Mujuru wanted to kill Masiyiwa
The late General Solomon Mujuru wanted to kill Econet Guru Strive Masiyiwa, the NPF Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has alleged."President Mugabe said, in his interview with the Indep...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 11:30hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strive Masiyiwa reflects on traumatic Zimbabwe moment
ZIMBABWE'S night is over, and we must work together now to bring in the dawn. We must work hard to turn away from (and learn from) the pages of our pained past. This includes talking about it, because...Published: 06 May 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by Strive Masiyiwa
Why Mnangagwa will make a great President
Here is why I think ED Mnangagwa will make a great President, at the very least a benevolent dictator (Paul Kagame anyone?). If I was in his shoes after years of Mugabeism (yes thats now actua...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 13:50hrs | | by Nigel T Sithole
Former death row inmate outlives judge, prosecutor, State witness
A MAN from Esigodini who was sentenced to death in 1985 has outlived the judge, prosecutor, State witness and his lawyer who were all involved in his case.In 1985, Mr Albert Gasela, now 69, wa...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Death for hijacker who ran over robbery victim in stolen car
A SERIAL armed robber, who was supposed to be released from prison in 2035, has been sentenced to death for carjacking a motorist, assaulting him and running him over with the vehicle.Taurai G...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Death row inmates graduate
AN inmate who is on the death row at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison recently graduated after the completion of a course in Voice of Prophecy Bible Study Guides.The inmate, Jack Sakala, was ...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Blow for 14 death row inmates
Fourteen condemned prisoners who complained of overstaying on death row, have lost their bid to nullify the death sentences imposed on them after the Constitutional Court threw out their applicat...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MPs urged to apply for hangman job
Members of Parliament who are keen on landing the vacant hangman post are free to apply for vetting, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Government has been battling for past 12 yeas to...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Mary Charamba
Zimbabwe pardon 10 death row inmates
ZIMBABWE last week pardoned 10 inmates who were on the death row after they requested for Presidential clemency while the remaining 80 will also survive the gallows if Government resolves to compl...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rekindles call for abolition of death penalty
Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday rekindled his call for the abolition of the death penalty, saying those insisting that it be maintained need divine intervention. The Constitu...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death penalty challenged
People's Democratic Party leader and lawyer Tendai Biti is challenging the constitutionality of capital punishment several months after he appeared before the same court arguing for sentences of d...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigerian preacher fails to overturn death sentence
Abuja - Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday upheld a death sentence handed out nine years ago to a Christian pastor for murdering a female member of his congregation and trying to kill five others. ...Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
92 death row inmates spared
NINETY-TWO prisoners on death row in Zimbabwe will not be executed as the country's leadership is convinced it is only God who has the right to take away life, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sa...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Prisons in Zimbabwe are in a bad state
A Government lawyer yesterday told the court that prisons in Zimbabwe are in a bad state and that condemned inmates who have spent years awaiting execution are languishing under difficult and undesira...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:12hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Zimbabwe hangman row
Zimbabwe has not been carrying out the death penalty because it does not have a hangman, the state prosecutor says.Olivia Zvedi was responding to a case brought by death row inmates who want t...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
16 death row inmates challenge law
At least 16 death row inmates, who have spent between four and 18 years awaiting their fate, have challenged their pending execution on the basis that the current legal framework does not allow anyone...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
No joy for death row inmates
Criminals serving life sentences have no right for parole and prison conditions cannot be used as a way to escape liability, the Commissioner-General of Prisons and Correctional Services Major-General...Published: 21 Aug 2015 at 08:48hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Zimbabwe death row inmates rise to 95
A total of 10 prisoners were sentenced to death in 2014 pushing the number of inmates on death sentence to 95.Amnesty International Zimbabwe (AIZ) on Wednesday disclosed the rise in the number...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death row inmate loses appeal
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a man on a death row convicted for shooting another man in a robbery attack, a decade ago. In a judgment made available yesterday, the bench turn...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 23:20hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Lifeline for Bulawayo girlfriend murderer
A 60-year-old death row inmate convicted of shooting his 27-year-old girlfriend in Bulawayo in 2002 has won an appeal to be heard at the Constitutional Court.Danis David Konson, who is facin...Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe death row inmates baptised
Fifteen condemned inmates were among the 280 prisoners who were baptised at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison yesterday.The death row inmates said after baptism that they had turned a new lea...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death warrants: Is Mnangagwa playing God
News that Zanu-PF Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said he will not sign any death warrants because he was once sentenced to death appears to suggest he is now playing God. Of the 97 pe...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Dr Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Mnangagwa signs death warrants
Following reports that Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa had told SADC Lawyers in Victoria Falls that he wouldn't sign the death warrants of 97 death row inmates because he does not "subscribe to th...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zim stalls execution of 96 death row inmates
JUSTICE Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is stalling the execution of 96 death row prisoners - because he does not believe in the death penalty.Mnangagwa must sign death warrants to send death row ...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 06:38hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Grace Mugabe's 'behead them' call dreadful
A recent report in this newspaper where the First Lady Grace Mugabe, in an apparent fit of rage, demanded that rapists be "beheaded”, has rekindled the thorny debate on the issue of the death pe...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 14:48hrs | | by Tangai Chipangura
Mnangagwa opposes death row inmates' appeal
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and government's chief law officer Justine Ulandi, have opposed a court application by two women on death row seeking the...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hires hangman to execute death row inmates
In Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, there are 77 convicts who have been condemned to death by hanging.Held in solitary confin...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 19:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe women escape hanging
A new Zimbabwe Constitution could keep two condemned women from a date with the hangman but could leave their victims' families still waiting for final justice.Zimbabwe's new draft constitutio...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 11:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Death row inmate's trial fails to take off
The High Court bail application trial for a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death by hanging by High Court Judge Justice Cheda on the 29th of January 2004 failed to take off after it emerged t...Published: 21 Jan 2013 at 14:02hrs | 2 | by Staff Report
Death row inmate appeals against sentence
A man who was sentenced to death has approached the High Court appealing against the court's ruling.Bvumai Machena on Wednesday appeared before High Court Judge Alphias Chitakunye, following a...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
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