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Only death penalty can stop murderers

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Image: 123RF/zerbor

Last week Thursday I saw a video clip circulating in Tzaneen in Limpopo, where three men and a woman were killed. One man and the woman had their heads cut off and the woman was genitally mutilated.

While they were doing this, the criminals were talking in English and another foreign language to someone who was filming them. 

There is no doubt the murders were ritual murders. It appears the victims were given something because the woman didn't scream when they cut her head off. I didn't sleep after watching the video clip and my body is still aching.

I wish the Human Rights Commission officials could view the video clip. Perhaps they will change their minds on the reinstatement of the death penalty. There are allegations that the victims were promised jobs when they met their fate.

I also heard that the killers were arrested. The death penalty should be reinstated because killers continue to kill people. They are given life sentence but after 10 or 20 years are back and start where they left off.

Lyborn Rikhotso, Giyani 

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