Ngakaagae maintains death penalty abolished

Kgosi Ngakaagae
Kgosi Ngakaagae

Kgosi Ngakaagae says the DPP have issued a press statement to the effect that the death penalty has not been abolished and remains constitutional as declared in the Ntesang case.

I must say that I was unsurprised by the DPP office's irrelevance on the point. A defensive approach was expected.

There has been no suggestion that the death penalty has been declared unconstitutional. Even the learned Judge made that clear in his judgment. What has been declared unconstitutional, which the DPP knows, is the flawed capital punishment sentencing scheme embodied in Section 203 of the Penal Code.

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