White mercy: a study of the death penalty in South Africa
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2004
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A Study of the Death Penalty
in South Africa
ROBERT TURRELL
Westport, Connecticut
London
Contents
Illustrations xi
Introduction 1
The Argument about the Death Penalty 7
The Argument about Mercy 14
Measuring the Subject 21
1 Segregation: This man is only a native (1900-1910) 35
Racial Stereotypes in the Mercy Reports 36
Petitions: The Importance of Primitive Instinct 37
Hanging Murder: The Degree of Deliberation 39
Nonhanging Murder: The Degree of Provocation 42
Riot and Rebellion in the Cape: Mkisa Ngcobo (1905), Hendrik
Bekeer (1907), and the Ferreira Rebels (1907) 46
To Hang or Not to Hang for Rape: Solomon Africa (1898) and Sam
Mshiywa (1904) 52
2 Lord Gladstone: This judicial slaughter is a desperate
business (1910-1914) 69
Capital Punishment and Witchcraft 72
Ritual Retribution: Lu Teng Ting (1910) and Mkhandumba
Buthelezi (1910) 74
The Natural Reluctance to Hang Women: Mietje Bontnaal
(1910) 77
Rape: Strict Justice and Fair Play for the Subject Races 82
viii Contents
3 Degeneration: Inferior whites undermine the white race as
a whole (1914-1921) 95
The 1916 Mental Disorders Act: The Feeble-minded and
Degenerate 97
A Degenerate Murderer: Bernard Schoon (1920) 100
The Policy of Executing Degenerates 106
Women Hanged: Dominica Radulphini (1917) and Dina van der
Merwe (1921) 109
Respectable White Women Raped 111
4 Prince Arthur and the Rand Rebellion: Between judges
and politicians (1922-1924) 121
White Men Murder Black Men: Johannes Brussouw (1922) and
Carl Stassen (1922) 123
Incited and Procured: Hull and Lewis (1922) 128
The Revolt of the Judiciary: Sam Long (1922) 129
The Mercy Prerogative Surrendered? 133
5 Racial Murder: A national pastime (1924-1933) 141
The Standerton Case: The Savage Death of Clara Ndlovu (1924) 142
Managing Racial Murder 145
Whitewash: Racist White Juries 148
Murder at Tweestroom: The Wrath of Samuel Makgaai (1926) 151
Black Opposition to Racial Injustice: The Louis Trichardt Case
(1928) 158
Murder Underground: The Reprieve of Jim Motlomeleli (1929) 162
Women Hanged for Greed: Ngqumbazi Tshange and Maria Zondi
(1925) and Daisy de Melker (1932) 164
6 General Smuts: Mostly illiterates and natives (1933-1939) 175
The Murder Law Transformed (1935) 176
The Racial Significance of Extenuating Circumstances: The Case
Junod Made 180
Witchcraft as an Extenuating Circumstance: The Terror of William
Sobekwa (1934) 186
Common Purpose: The Strange Case of the Ngoepe Brothers
(1935) 190
Premeditation, Provocation, and Motive: The Smuts Legacy 193
7 A Discretionary Death Penalty: Executions are carried out
by one racial group on another (1939-1948) 201
Black and White Victims: A New Breed of Judge 202
Murder in the Townships: The Agony of Agnes Dhlamini (1945) 211
Rape and Retribution: Worst Cases 217
Judge Krause and Penal Reform 221
Contents ix
Conclusion 231
The Recommendation of the Judge and Jury 232
Who Decided? 233
Rules of Reprieve 234
Race and Gender Bias 237
Procedural Appendix 243
Statistical Appendix 257
Author s Note 273
Index 275
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