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In the Shadow of Sharpeville

Apartheid and Criminal Justice

By: Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker

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In the Shadow of Sharpeville

Apartheid and Criminal Justice

By: Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker

A history of the men who were sentenced to hang in South Africa following the death of a deputy-mayor in Sharpeville in 1984. The authors focus on the trial, sentencing, and subsequent international campaign that eventually led to their release after a stay of execution was ordered only 18 hours before the death sentence was to be carried out. Their exploration of the events also leads the authors into discussions of the way the criminal justice system in apartheid South Africa was biased against blacks. The source material for the book included countless interviews and letters written from Death Row. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NYU Press

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0814766595

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9780814766590

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Apartheid and Criminal Justice

By: Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker

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Apartheid and Criminal Justice

By: Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker

The authors take a scalpel to South Africa's system of criminal justice during the Apartheid era. They focus on the case of the Sharpeville Six to analyse how criminal justice was used to make convictions easy to secure. Analysing the technicalities of the criminal law, as well as the quality of evidence and judicial reasoning in the case against the Six, Parker and Mokhesi-Parker also convey vividly through letters from death row, the sense these people made of their impending executions and how an international campaign to save their lives succeeded with only 18 hours to spare.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349146196

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9781349146192

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In the Shadow of Sharpeville

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