EDITORIAL: The death penalty — a nonsensical nonstarter
The debate about bringing back the death penalty is stillborn. The constitution prohibits it, finish and klaar
12 September 2019 - 05:00
The debate about bringing back the death penalty is stillborn. The constitution prohibits it, finish and klaar. If South Africans value this hard-fought-for constitutional dispensation, the death penalty should not even feature in our debates.
It is instructive to look back to the early 1990s, when the constitution was being written...
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