Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
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•Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved the law this week after a bill passed through Parliament .
Zimbabwe has about 60 prisoners on death row, and the new law spares them.
The country last executed someone in 2005 , partly because no one was willing to take up the job of state executioner.
Amnesty International described the law as “a beacon of hope for the abolitionist movement in the region".
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