Zimbabwe has a new hangman. The post has been vacant since 2005.
Zimbabwe's last hangman retired in 2005, but the BBC reports the prison service was unable to find a replacement and repeatedly advertised the job.
Prison Service Commissioner Paradzai Zimondi revealed that the position had been filled in mid-2012 while showing journalists around Harare Remand Prison a week ago.
"Indeed, we now have a hangman but these people are still to be executed. In fact, no-one has been executed in the past 12 years," the Herald newspaper quoted him as saying.
He also said 74 men and two women are on death row.
