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New opinion study shows Zimbabwean public ready to accept death penalty abolition

By Death Penalty Project, on 1 January 2018


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Today, The Death Penalty Project, in partnership with Veritas, launches “12 Years Without an Execution: Is Zimbabwe Ready for Abolition?” a national public opinion study, providing for the first time comprehensive and contextualised data on public attitudes towards the death penalty in Zimbabwe – a country that has not carried out any executions in over 12 years.

  • Document type NGO report
  • Themes list Public opinion, Public debate, Death Penalty, Country/Regional profiles,



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