Ismail Mahomed, Advocate, first Black judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. South African History Online. Some rights reserved.
It is 20 years since a great anti-death penalty judgement
Although the Mandela government was abolitionist, the attorney general of Witwatersrand pressed for the death penalty for two people. This, it turned out, did the world a favour.
By
N. Jayaram
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