Submitted by lratledge on
The death penalty is explicitly prohibited for any offence committed by a person under the age of 18, but life imprisonment remains a lawful sentence for offences committed by children and males under the age of 18 may be sentenced to corporal punishment.
Zimbabwe adopted a new constitution in 2013, which did not retain the provisions of the previous constitution that explicitly foresaw the legality of corporal punishment as a sentence. The following year, the High Court ruled that physical punishment of children as a criminal sentence was unconstitutional, but the review of the decision before the Constitutional Court has been indefinitely delayed preventing the judgment being enforced.
