Zimbabwe is de facto abolitionist: although it retains capital punishment in its criminal law, the country has not carried out any execution since 2005. In 2018, more than 5 individuals were sentenced to death and more than 81 people remain on death row.
While Zimbabwe has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1991, it has not yet ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2).
26 February – 1 March 2019: Honourable Dorcas Sibanda, Member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe, Member of the Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services and of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development, PGA Member, attended the 7th World Congress against the Death Penalty, organized by Ensemble contre la peine de mort in Brussels (Belgium). During the Closing Ceremony, Hon. Sibanda delivered the final declaration on behalf of parliamentarians.
4 March 2016: During PGA's Round-Table and consultations on the Abolition of the Death Penalty with Ghanaian, Tanzanian and Zimbabwean Parliamentarians, hosted by the Parliament of Ghana in Accra, MPs from all parties and relevant actors were sensitized to the abolition of the death penalty.