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dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-08T16:55:34Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-08T16:55:34Z
dc.date.created 2004-11-11 en
dc.identifier.citation [1995] ZACC 3
dc.identifier.citation 1995 (6) BCLR 665 (CC)
dc.identifier.citation 1995 (3) SA 391 (CC)
dc.identifier.citation 1995 (2) SACR 1 (CC)
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12144/1981
dc.title S v Makwanyane and Another en
dc.title.alternative CCT/94 en
dc.identifier.casenumber CCT3/94 en
dc.date.hearing 15 - 17 February 1995
dc.contributor.judge Chaskalson P Majority judgment
dc.contributor.judge Kentridge AJ separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Kriegler J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Ackermann J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Didcott J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Madala J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Mahomed J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Mokgoro J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge O'Regan J separate judgment
dc.contributor.judge Sachs J separate judgment
dc.date.judgment 6 June 1995
dc.link.judgment https://collections.concourt.org.za/bitstream/handle/20.500.12144/1981/Full%20judgment%20Official%20version%206%20June%201995.pdf?sequence=16&isAllowed=y
dc.concourt.synopsis Death penalty declared unconstitutional. Maj: Chaskalson P held that retribution cannot be accorded the same weight under our Constitution as the rights to life and dignity, which are the most important of all the rights in the Bill of Rights. It has not been shown that the death penalty would be materially more effective to deter or prevent murder than the alternative sentence of life imprisonment. Taking these elements into account as well as the element of arbitrariness and the possibility of error in enforcing the death penalty, the clear and convincing case that is required to justify the death sentence as the penalty for murder has not been made out. Separate concurrences by: Ackermann J, Didcott J, Kentridge AJ, Langa J, Madala J, Mahomed J, Mokgoro J, O’Regan J, Sachs J.
dc.concourt.casehistory Adjudication of a referral to the Constitutional Court by the Appellate Division in S v Makwanyane en 'n Ander 1994(3) SA 868 (A) ; 1994 (2) SACR 157 (A), regarding the constitutionality of the death sentence, death sentence declared unconstitutional.


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