Maverick Citizen Op-Ed: Death penalty debate: South Africans deserve more than cheap political tricks

Former Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba makes it clear that he is well aware of the statistics and theory supporting the notion that the death penalty is not a meaningful deterrence to crime. He does not base his argument on the theory of deterrence, he says.

I don’t want to labour the complex issue of recidivism modelling or the fact that there is no South African data on the subject, for I think we can accept, like Mashaba, that violent crime is out of control and that perpetrators of such crime are more than likely to be repeat offenders. So Mashaba now knows that recidivism would be prevented by rehabilitating and educating offenders. Why would he choose to kill offenders rather than educate them? Why would he rather kill than offer care?we are already in the business of incapacitation.

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