Elections2019: Death penalty back on agenda WeekendArgus
Cape Town - Crime is a hot topic ahead of elections, and some political parties have taken the hardest possible line by calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty, despite the Constitutional Court forbidding it.
“We must hold people accountable for their acts,” he said. “Some murderers only serve three years because there’s no place in prison to keep them all.”“I was minding my own business, but then there was this one man in Delft. He was sitting in his house with his family when thugs came and kicked down his door. They took the TV and stabbed him in front of his family,” Pillay said.
The Freedom Front Plus’s manifesto does not mention the death penalty, but spokesperson Pieter Swart said it would support reinstating capital punishment. “Our stance is that murder, rape and violent crimes should be punishable with the death penalty.” “First, the Constitution does not provide for it. Second, the criminal justice system is flawed so there is no way of being sure the accused who is sentenced is actually guilty - an important prerequisite, especially for the death penalty.
“Whether we like it or not, the Constitutional Court has made a decision on capital punishment and we respect this decision, as we do any other decision of the Constitutional Court,” said provincial spokesperson Daylin Mitchell. “The EFF will always be opposed to the death penalty given how it was abused by the apartheid government to deal with dissent,” said MP Nazier Paulsen. “In fact, the EFF government will ensure that all correctional services are corrective rather than punitive. It will ensure that the correctional system will be transformed to include compulsory education and skilling.”
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