South African Gets Life Sentence for Throwing Farmworker to Lions
The Columbian › October 02, 2005
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa In a case that shocked South Africa for its brutality, a white farmer was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the murder of one of his black workers, who was attacked with machetes, tied up and thrown into a lion enclosure, where he was devoured.
The trial brought impassioned protests from demonstrators who saw the killing as another racial attack in a country still grappling with its apartheid past.See the full content of this document
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South African Gets Life Sentence for Throwing Farmworker to Lions
Many in the courtroom in the northern town of Phalaborwa whistled and cheered in...
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