Christa Pike’s failed execution revives South Africa’s death-penalty debate

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Christa Pike’s failed execution in Tennessee has exposed the irreversible risks of state killing. For South Africa, where the Constitutional Court outlawed capital punishment in 1995, the case offers a renewed test of whether harsher punishment can repair a failing criminal-justice system.

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