Capital punishment in Zimbabwe

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Capital punishment was abolished in Zimbabwe in 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/6665/2017/en/|title=Abolitionist and retentionist countries (as of July 2018)|accessdate=13 July 2024|date=23 October 2018|publisher=Amnesty International}} The country carried out its last execution in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org/country-search-post.cfm?country=Zimbabwe|title=The Death Penalty in Zimbabwe|publisher=Death Penalty Worldwide|access-date=26 July 2022|archive-date=22 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822141815/http://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org/country-search-post.cfm?country=Zimbabwe|url-status=dead}} Zimbabwe abstained during the 2020 United Nations moratorium on the death penalty resolution.{{cite web|url=https://www.ecpm.org/wp-content/uploads/flyer-moratoire-GB-2020-211220.pdf|title=UN Resolution for a Universal Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty|accessdate=26 July 2022|publisher=Ensemble contre la peine de mort|archive-date=24 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924201528/https://www.ecpm.org/wp-content/uploads/flyer-moratoire-GB-2020-211220.pdf|url-status=dead}}

On 31 December 2024, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a law abolishing capital punishment in Zimbabwe.{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/zimbabwe-death-penalty-abolished-ccbdd774559f5bbf097176d42effbb60 |title=Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging |access-date=31 December 2024 |work=Associated Press |date=31 December 2024 }}