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Peacemaking criminology as ubuntu: A reply to Thuli Madonsela

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If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime
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Chris Hani’s killer denied parole, again

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Justice minister says granting parole would negate the severity ascribed to the murder by the court when the assassin was sentenced
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Death penalty won’t stop sexual violence

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It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
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MPs must kill the anti-gay Bill in Uganda

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Proposed legislation imposes the death penalty for gay sex or ‘recruitment’. But love is not a crime
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The death penalty won’t end gender-based violence

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Our solutions to the epidemic of men murdering and raping women cannot be grounded in the same hyper-masculine violence they serve to address
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Hanged by the state but icons to the youth

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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

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The assault on the 150-year-old congregation was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history
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Botswana hangs on to the death penalty

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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’

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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

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Sudden surge in death sentences in Nigeria raises concern as unsafe convictions are common.
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It’s torture living on death row

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Lawsuits on the constitutionality of lethal injection have trapped Tennessee, US, inmates in perpetual limbo.
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Editorial – Death sentence won’t stop crime

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

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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

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Amnesty International says it fears Zimbabwe will resume executions after prison officials were quoted saying they have found a new hangman.
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Iran hangs 10 drug traffickers

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