S v Makwanyane
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s-v-makwanyane-183-5255610
title:
S v Makwanyane
text:
S v Makwanyane and Another was a landmark 1995 judgment of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. It established that capital punishment was inconsistent with the commitment to human rights expressed in the Interim Constitution. The court's ruling invalidated section 277(1)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, which had provided for use of the death penalty, along with any similar provisions in any other law in force in South Africa. The court also forbade the government from carrying
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South African legal case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_v_Makwanyane
date created:
2011-01-15T16:57:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T21:16:58Z
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