Chris Barnard (executioner)

Chris Barnard (died between 1990[1] and 2008)[2][3] was a South African executioner during the Apartheid Era. He executed around 1,500 [4] people between 1962 and 1986. Most of his executions were conducted on ordinary murderers.[5] He has been deceased for quite some time.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://saldru.lib.msu.edu/dvd9/Public%20Sector%20Government%20Prisons%201990.pdf
  2. ↑ "Inside SA’s factory of death". Independent Online.
  3. ↑ "Sandra Smith - South Africa". Capitalpunishmentuk.org. 1989-11-14. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
  4. ↑ "Activists' remains to be exhumed". News24.
  5. ↑ http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/special/prison/mcbride.htm
  6. ↑ "Sandra Smith - the last woman to be hanged in South Africa". capitalpunishmentuk.org.


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