Life imprisonment in South Africa: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

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dc.contributor.authorMujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-29T14:11:53Z
dc.date.available2016-06-29T14:11:53Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractLife imprisonment has been part of South Africa's penal regime for decades. This article analyses how this form of punishment has changed in meaning in since 1906. The author looks at life imprisonment during the death penalty period ; life imprisonment in the aftermath of the abolition of the death penalty ; life imprisonment under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, when it could only be imposed by the High Courts ; and life imprisonment during the Criminal Law Amendment Act, when the regional courts were also empowered to impose this sentence. The author discusses the laws and circumstances which prevailed in the above four periods. With life imprisonment now being the severest sentence that can be imposed in South Africa, the author highlights the challenges associated with it and calls upon the government, courts and civil society to think seriously about how this form of punishment should be administered so as to avoid confusing inmates and exposing the government to litigation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMujuzi, J. (2009). Life imprisonment in South Africa: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 22(1): 1-38en_US
dc.identifier.issn1011-8527
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2341
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherJuta Lawen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1011-8527/
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectSentencingen_US
dc.subjectLife imprisonmenten_US
dc.subjectDeath penaltyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectCriminal Law Amendment Acten_US
dc.subjectLife sentenceen_US
dc.subjectPunishmenten_US
dc.titleLife imprisonment in South Africa: yesterday, today, and tomorrowen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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