person must be produced as sufficient authority for the death penalty; (c) once the sentence of death has been pronounced an automatic appeal lies from the High Court to the Supreme Court in favour of the accused within 14 days from the date of sentence. The Judge is under an obligation to inform the President of the death sentence in writing; (d) the President on the advice of the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy and after all appeals have been exhausted in Courts, pardon such an offender or issue a death warrant or commutation of sentence; (e) where a death warrant, or order, for pardon is issued by the President, that warrant shall serve as sufficient authority for treatment of the accused; and (f) where a woman alleges to be pregnant, it is left to the discretion of the Court to determine such pregnancy and if found pregnant, the Court shall not pass the death sentence. C. ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES. Statistics on the Death Penalty 174. In Zambia, the death penalty hitherto only exists in statute because since 1997, the State party has adopted a form of moratorium in that it does not execute condemned prisoners. The table below represents statistics on the death penalty at Kabwe Maximum Prison from 1997 to date: 83