News:Mnangagwa joins Biti's call against capital punishment
<vote /> Addressing a constitutional advocacy meeting in Bulawayo, acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa said Zimbabweans must continue advocating for capital punishment to be struck off the country’s statutes.
His call comes at a time when the push to abolish capital punishment is now at the Constitutional Court where Tendai Biti, who is representing death row inmates, seeks the court’s intervention to drop the death penalty. The case will be heard at the Constitutional Court on September 28.
Mnangagwa said,
We have reduced the age of majority from 21 to 18. What are we saying? We are saying anybody below the age of 18 cannot be sentenced to death. Those above 18 except women, women cannot be sentenced to death. Women cannot be hanged. But men, any man above age of 18 up to the age of 70 can be hanged. I am above 70 so I cannot be hanged again. I have no doubt that we will continue advocating for total abolishing of the death penalty, but we still have strong views both from men and women who want people to be hanged, but we pray to God so that they see the light.
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