SOUTH AFRICA. DEATH ROW PRISONERS SHOULD BE RELEASED: SAPOHR

all prisoners on death row should be released, the South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) said.
"Sapohr's suggestion would be that all those former death row inmates be set free, for once and for all.
"After all, the majority of them have been behind bars for such a long time, they virtually had no life to fall back to," said Golden Miles Bhudu, the group’s president.
The organisation said it supported wholeheartedly the ruling by the Constitutional Court on May 25 that the 62 prisoners still on death row should have the death sentence set aside and replaced.
"Sapohr regarded the death penalty right from our inception as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundation of a society.
"We rejected since our inception the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders," Bhudu said.