Executions Looming as Zimbabwe Gets Hangman

Rights groups have raised fears of imminent executions following the appointment of a hangman citing it as a violation of the basic right to life.

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  • kjrs120
    Feb 10 2013, 05:15
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    Keep the hangman until Mugabe kicks the bucket and then change the law. Give Mugabe the honour of being the last dictator hung in Zimbabwe.

  • instantmoyo
    Feb 9 2013, 11:41
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    the only way to totally abolish this form of punishment is to first agree that people can sometimes move from humans to wild animals and back. A person who rapes a child is a wild animal and therefore should not have HUMAN RIGHTS. A person who murders another just because the other does not hold the same political point of view, or other trivial reason, is not at that time a human being and shuld not deserve HUMAN RIGHTS. A mass murderer should not be described as Human.

    The death sentence should be reserved for such criminals, and should be seen as improving the humanity f those that are left after the hanging. to me a politician who wants power so much he causes the deaths of other people should hung.

    The government should spell out the categories of crime that result in the death sentence, rape, murder, armed robbery, burglary, etc These should then be put on billboards for all to see. After that the only inhuman act would be to keep the criminal waiting for hanging for more than three days after sentencing. I think its wrong to make them wait. Better t hang them the following morning.