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Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter
Government conducting a two-week public hearing consultation on whether the country should scrap the death penalty.
The hearings will run from 27 March to 7 April.
The Ministry of Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs has set a schedule for the consultation process.
While the country’s Constitution upholds the death penalty, no criminal has been executed since 2002 despite courts still sentencing criminals to hang.
The public consultations are expected to guide the country on the policy position that needs to be adopted with regards to the death penalty.
Two teams have been deployed to conduct the public consultations and one of them will operate in the northern parts of the country and another in the southern parts.
In Bulawayo, the consultations will be held on 31 March at the Small City Hall from 10 AM to 12 PM before moving to Nkulumane Hall where the meeting will be held from 2 PM to 4 PM.
Another public hearing will be held in St Peters Village on the outskirts of Bulawayo on April 1.
In Matabeleland North consultations will be held in Lupane at Lupane Community Hall on 5 April from 2 PM to 4 PM and on the same date another public hearing will be held at Ntabazinduna Hall in Umguza from 9 AM to 11 pm.
In the same province, another meeting will be held in Victoria Falls at Chinotimba Hall on 7 April from 10AM to 12PM.
In Matabeleland South, public hearings will be held in Beitbridge at Vhembe High School on 3 April between 9AM and 11AM and another on the same day at Gwanda Town at Gwanda District Club from 2PM to 4PM.
Another consultation meeting will be held in Matobo District on 4 April at Natisa Presbyterian Church from 10 AM to 12PM.
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