Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa today said he was against the death penalty and would rather resign from his ministerial post than sign execution certificates for the 89 people currently on death row. Mnangagwa was sentenced to death as a teenager for bombing a train during an anti-colonial campaign. “The death penalty brings utter hopelessness and I remember the mental torture I experienced upon receiving the sentence in 1965. I was fortunate that I was saved by the age technicality (since the law prohibited capital punishment for persons below 18). For me, it does not matter where I am, I will always speak against the death penalty,” he said.
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