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Before South Africa brings back the death penalty, it must answer the hard questions
The high levels of crime have forced South Africa to informally confront the death penalty subject. The Constitutional Court abolished the death penalty ruling it as unconstitutional citing, among other considerations, the right to life, dignity, arbitrariness and the possibility of error.
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Christa Pike’s failed lethal injection in Tennessee has reignited the death-penalty debate and raised uncomfortable questions about state power, justice and irreversible mistakes.
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- October 4, 2026
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- IOL