Human Rights Commission Commends Government For Strides In Abolishing Death Penalty
Written by Mafken FM Newsroom on 22 December 2024
By Staff Reporter
The Human Rights Commission has commended Government for acceding to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) that aims at abolishing the Death Penalty.
Minister of Justice, Princes Kasune on December 19. 2024 deposited the instruments of accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR with the United Nations Secretary General in New York,
And HRC Spokesperson Mweelwa Muleya has also commended the National Assembly for approving that the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR which entails that at no time shall the death penalty be invoked in Zambia.
Mr. Muleya says by agreeing to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, Zambia has formally joined the growing number of countries that do not support the death penalty.
Zambia abolished the Death Penalty on 23rd December 2022 when President Hakainde Hichilema assented to the Criminal Procedure Code Bill Number 24 of 2022 and the Penal Code Bill Number 25 of 2022, which replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment.
