Reintroducing death penalty will be ‘misplaced, dangerous’

By Opinion | Published Apr 14, 2024

OPINION: Were South Africa to reintroduce the death penalty, there is little doubt that it would be poor people-not criminal politicians-who would face the gallows as they are the visible face of crime, deployed by the invisible multiracial syndicates using them as hitmen and hijackers; they are seldom charged and, if they are, can afford the best lawyers, writes Mary de Haas.