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==Executions== | ==Executions== | ||
When a judge in a high court pronounces a death sentence, convicts are sent to Mukobeko. The prisoners are executed by hanging in an event that a President signs their death warrants.<ref>[https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=38745 From deathrow to life: 322 prisoners saved from noose] ''[[Zambia Daily Mail]]'', 2 August 2015</ref> | |||
On January 24, 1997, 8 prisoners were executed on the same day that President [[Frederick Chiluba]] pardoned 600 inmates. Seven of the prisoners had been convicted of murder, and the eighth had been convicted of murder and armed robbery.<ref>[http://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/07/01/human-rights-zambia-1996-elections Human Rights in Zambia since the 1996 elections, Ch. V The Death Penalty], Human Rights Watch, 1 July 1997</ref> | On January 24, 1997, 8 prisoners were executed on the same day that President [[Frederick Chiluba]] pardoned 600 inmates. Seven of the prisoners had been convicted of murder, and the eighth had been convicted of murder and armed robbery.<ref>[http://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/07/01/human-rights-zambia-1996-elections Human Rights in Zambia since the 1996 elections, Ch. V The Death Penalty], Human Rights Watch, 1 July 1997</ref> | ||
