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Chris Hani’s killer denied parole, again

Article Franny Rabkin - 16 Mar 2020

Justice minister says granting parole would negate the severity ascribed to the murder by the court when the assassin was sentenced

Death penalty won’t stop sexual violence

Article Gushwell Brooks - 31 Jan 2020

It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders

MPs must kill the anti-gay Bill in Uganda

Article Rainer Ebert - 18 Oct 2019

Proposed legislation imposes the death penalty for gay sex or ‘recruitment’. But love is not a crime

The death penalty won’t end gender-based violence

Article Detention Justice Forum - 12 Sep 2019

Our solutions to the epidemic of men murdering and raping women cannot be grounded in the same hyper-masculine violence they serve to address

Hanged by the state but icons to the youth

Article Marko Phiri - 10 May 2019

Chidhumo was Zim’s most notorious felon, so why has popular culture lionised him?

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Mourners’ emotional vigil for victims of US synagogue attack

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Oct 2018

The assault on the 150-year-old congregation was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history

Botswana hangs on to the death penalty

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Aug 2018

Most of Africa is abandoning the death penalty but Botswana — an affluent, landlocked, diamond-exporting state — is among the leading exceptions

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Mob justice: ‘Yes, I would join in to protect my community’

Article Staff Reporter - 23 May 2017

The Daily Vox asked Jo'burgers what their thoughts are on vigilantism and whether the death penalty should be brought back

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Africa must move away from the death penalty

Analysis Staff Reporter - 24 Apr 2017

Sudden surge in death sentences in Nigeria raises concern as unsafe convictions are common.

It’s torture living on death row

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Apr 2015

Lawsuits on the constitutionality of lethal injection have trapped Tennessee, US, inmates in perpetual limbo.

Editorial – Death sentence won’t stop crime

Article Editorial - 24 Jul 2014

Frustration leads some people to long for the death sentence, but capital punishment would do nothing against the causes of crime.

Editorial: Fuelling the fire of vigilantism

Article Editorial - 17 Oct 2013

Is the media's reporting on events such as the Diepsloot deaths with a rush to classify the potential culprits as foreigners feeding xenophobia?

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Zimbabwe finds new hangman, Amnesty fears new executions

Africa Staff Reporter - 9 Feb 2013

Amnesty International says it fears Zimbabwe will resume executions after prison officials were quoted saying they have found a new hangman.

Iran hangs 10 drug traffickers

Article Sapa Afp - 7 Nov 2012

Iran has executed 10 drug traffickers in a prison in Tehran, says a statement on the website of the prosecutor's office.

Rights groups urge South Sudan to suspend executions

Africa Sapa Afp - 5 Nov 2012

Rights groups urged South Sudan on Monday to put a moratorium on the country's executions because of flaws in its legal system.

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