Execution stay
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg The Pretoria Supreme Court early this morning (N.Z. Time) ordered a postponement of the execution of six black South Africans due to be hanged at. dawn today. Lawyers for the five men and one woman facing execution presented evidence of alleged perjury by one of the prosecution’s chief witnesses.
Mr Justice Human, who sentenced the six for complicity in the 1984 mob murder of a black town councillor, told the lawyers: “If this had been submitted to me earlier, I might have come to a different conclusion.” Shortly before the court hearing began, a car bomb exploded outside a courthouse and police station 40km away in Krugersdorp, killing three black men and injuring 16 people.
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