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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa signs bill abolishing the death penalty (www.euronews.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If I’m being vulnerably honest, this combo of news is the first to make me good-cry in years.