Deputy President Jacob Zuma was questioned in the National...

Deputy President Jacob Zuma was questioned in the National Assembly whether the government would extradite alleged terrorists to face trial in countries with the death penalty.
"This country does not have a death penalty. Any country that would say 'bring a person here so that we could sentence to death' we will not do so. We do not support the death penalty."
However, Zuma then appeared to contradict himself, saying it was a different matter if South Africa had an extradition agreement with a particular country.
"If a country (with an extradition pact with SA) says brings the person here, and at the end of the trial, the country uses its own laws to reach any penalty, then that's a different matter."
The Constitutional Court earlier in 2000 ruled that the government erred in handing over convicted US Tanzanian embassy bomber Khalfan Mohamed to US authorities without first seeking an assurance that he would not face the death penalty because South Africa's constitution outlawed capital punishment.