Kubayi: Death Penalty ‘Has No Place’ in Democratic SA

Kubayi: Death penalty ‘has no place’ in democratic SA

Justice Minister Mmamaloko Kubayi delivers a powerful lecture against the death penalty, reflecting on its historical context and the importance of human rights in South Africa's democracy.

Kubayi: Calls to restore death penalty would return SA to ‘barbarism’

By Lebone Rodah Mosima Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has warned that calls to reinstate the death penalty would drag South Africa back towards the brutality of its apartheid past, saying capital punishment has no place in a constitutional democracy founded on human dignity and the right to life. “Those who today call for the return of death penalty must understand that they are asking for our country to return to barbarism. Capital punishmen…