Published Date:
17 January 2006
IN SOUTH Africa, we are raised on a strict diet of justice as retribution. With violent crimes on a shocking upsurge, with child rape and abuse on the increase, there are frequent calls - backed by public support - to restore capital punishment.
Mercifully, South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled that the death penalty - which South Africans eliminated at the same time we were liberated from apartheid - is unconstitutional. Sadly, in many places in the world it seems that men and women...
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Last Updated:
16 January 2006 10:09 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Apartheid
