Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.
This is spectacular news. I didn’t even know he was now president. I remember like 15 years ago he would have won a fraud-heavy election against Mugabe, he was essentially under house arrest, and his supporters were being hunted by the state.
If I’m being vulnerably honest, this combo of news is the first to make me good-cry in years.