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There were at least 9 new death sentences in Zambia in 2021. 257 people were on death row at the end of 2021. [2] On 25 May 2022, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema announced that the death penalty would soon be abolished in Zambia. [3] [4] On 23 December 2022, capital punishment was officially abolished, though it remains in some military ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
24 June – Zambia reports the first suspected cases of monkeypox. [2] 15 December – Police in Zambia arrest a truck driver alleged to have transported 27 Ethiopian migrants found dead on the outskirts of Lusaka on Sunday. The bodies were dumped in a farm. [3] 23 December – Zambia officially abolishes capital punishment. [4]
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
The countries in Africa that most recently abolished the death penalty are Ghana (2023), Zambia (2022) and Equatorial Guinea (2022) for ordinary crimes, [clarification needed] Zimbabwe (2024), Central African Republic (2022) and Sierra Leone (2021) for all crimes.
The most recent country to ratify was Zambia, on 19 December 2024. [ 1 ] The Optional Protocol commits its members to the abolition of the death penalty within their borders, though Article 2.1 allows parties to make a reservation allowing execution "in time of war pursuant to a conviction for a most serious crime of a military nature committed ...
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
It calls on States that maintain the death penalty to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolition, and in the meantime, to restrict the number of offences which it punishes and to respect the rights of those on death row. It also calls on States that have abolished the death penalty not to reintroduce it.