Rights groups urge Zimbabwe’s president to sign bill abolishing death penalty

Ziyambi Ziyambi, Zimbabwe's justice minister following parliamentary proceedings before the Death Abolition Bill was passed on Dec. 12, 2024. (Columbus Mavhunga/VOA) Zachariah Choga, an attorney in Harare, shown here on Dec. 13, 2024, said he believed adequate to search was not properly done on death abolition in Zimbabwe (Columbus Mavhunga/VOA)

Rights groups are urging Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sign into law a bill that would abolish the death penalty, following the bill’s landmark passage Thursday by the country's senate, after earlier passage by the lower house of parliament.