All Africa reported that more than 200 inmates of South...

All Africa reported that more than 200 inmates of South Africa's prisons still had the status of Death Row prisoners even though the African Constitutional Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional on June 6, 1995.
The prisoners, who were sentenced to death before 1990 and included armed robbers, murderers and rapists, were still in maximum-security sections of prisons throughout the country.
A moratorium on the death penalty was imposed in 1990. Although the Criminal Law Amendment Act in 1998 made provision for the death penalty to be reviewed and replaced by other punishments, only 295 of the 497 Death Row prisoners had had their sentences converted, the report added.