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Mariëtte Sonjaleen Bosch (1950 – 31 March 2001, later named Mariëtte Wolmarans [1]) was a South African woman who was executed in Botswana on 31 March 2001. [2] Bosch was convicted for the murder of Maria Magdalene "Ria" Wolmarans, both members of the white expatriate community in Gaborone, in June 1996. [3] [4] [4] She was the first white ...
S v Makwanyane and Another (CCT 3/94) was a landmark 1995 judgement 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 ...
Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]
Wrongful execution is a miscarriage of justice occurring when an innocent person is put to death by capital punishment.Cases of wrongful execution are cited as an argument by opponents of capital punishment, while proponents say that the argument of innocence concerns the credibility of the justice system as a whole and does not solely undermine the use of the death penalty.
In October 1984, both McCollum and Brown were sentenced to death, with Brown becoming the youngest person on North Carolina's death row. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used McCollum's case to justify the existence of the death penalty. [151] After appealing, both death sentences were overturned in 1988, and the two had retrials in 1991.
She was born from Masaka district and used to work in a small gift shop in Kampala Uganda. [1] Kigula was imprisoned in 2000. Along with her maid Nansamba Patience, she was accused of the murder of her partner, Constantine Sseremba. The court case hinged on the testimony of her three-year-old stepson. In 2009 she was sentenced to death by hanging.
Since 1959, the South African government officially performed 2,949 hangings (14 of women), including 1,123 in the 1980s. [ 8][ 9] Of over one hundred South Africans executed in 1988, only three were white, all sentenced for the murder of whites. [ 8] Despite the obviously skewed verdicts, most capital cases ended not with execution; out of 83 ...
In 2005, thirteen people were finally proven innocent of child molestation after having served four years in prison. A fourteenth died in prison. Only four people were proven guilty. This infamous case, which deeply shook public opinion, is known as the Affaire d'Outreau, the Outreau case, from the name of the city where the victims lived.