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When South Africa's Constitutional Court was created under then-President Nelson Mandela, its first act was to abolish the death penalty. Justice Arthur Chaskalson, President of the Court, announced its unanimous decision on June 7, 1995, stating, "Everyone, including the most abominable of human beings, has a right to life, and capital punishment is therefore unconstitutional....Retribution cannot be accorded the same weight under our Constitution as the right to life and dignity. It has not been shown that the death sentence would be materially more effective to deter or prevent murder than the alternative sentence of life imprisonment would be." Under apartheid, the death penalty had been applied much more often to blacks than to whites. Mandela, himself, faced the possibility of a death sentence in his 1962 trial for incitement. 
Jerry Martin (pictured, r.) was executed in Texas on December 3 for killing a correctional officer during an escape attempt in 2007. Meanwhile, John Falk (l.), who also participated in the escape and was reportedly driving the car that struck and killed the officer, has not even been convicted six years after the crime. Falk's original trial was declared a mistrial due to problems with the jury instructions, and it is possilbe another trial will not be allowed. (He remains incarcerated for life on his original charge.) Martin waived his appeals and said he had tried to escape from prison out of a sense of hopelessness.
