19:36•Updated 19:45
Located in southern Africa, Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty in its legal system.
The president of the country Emmerson Mnangagwa this week passed a parliamentary-backed amendment to the law that consigned the death penalty to history.
The decision was expected. Zimbabwe has not carried out a single death penalty in almost two decades.
Thanks to the new law, around 60 prisoners sentenced to execution were spared their lives.
The human rights organization Amnesty International said in a statement that the decision “gives hope to the movement against the death penalty in the region”.
Source: AP