WHITE MERCY A Study of the Death Penalty in South Africa

Hardback. A book about how a condemned man's or woman's fate was determined after a death sentence was handed down in South Africa. It is about who received a welcome visit from the prison governor with notice of a reprieve and who received an unwelcome visit from the sheriff bearing a grim, black-lettered document that proclaimed the date of his or her execution. It is a book about mercy and the death penalty. It is an examination of South African legal rules and political sensibilities surrounding the management of homicidal violence in the first half of the 20th century. With Conclusion, Procedural Appendix, Statistical Appendix + Index. 281pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.