Over the last several years all over the world, individuals have been exonerated who otherwise might have been executed for offences which it later turned out, they never committed. Examples include but are not limited to: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter who spent 19 years in prison and Geronimo Pratt who spent 27 years in prison in the U.S.; the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 in the U.K.; the Sharpeville 6 in South Africa and many others around the world. The U.S. brings forth on a regular basis numerous examples of people who were at the brink of execution before exoneration. A number of people have been executed in the U.K.; U.S.A.; South Africa under apartheid and elsewhere for crimes it later turned out, they never committed. Thus the topic of the death penalty will be with us for the foreseeable future. It is like the Halley's Comet. It keeps coming back after a disappearance. This book is a small contribution to that debate.

Author Biography

Dr. Munyonzwe Hamalengwa practiced law in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for twenty-five years. He has been involved in some of the most difficult and high-profile murder cases that have garnered media reports all over the world including that of Police Officer Richard Wills who murdered his mistress and burried her in a barrel in his house; the Johnson Aziga case of double murder by HIV transmission; the Kuldip Singh Samra case of double homicide in a Toronto courtroom and then his fleeing to India which resulted in the agreement to have an Extradition Treaty between Canada and India. Hamalengwa has also prevented the removal from Canada by Canada Immigration of hundreds and hundreds of individuals. Hamalengwa is the father of Class Action Law Suits against Carding and Racial profiling in Canada. Dr. Hamalengwa is the Dean of the School of Law at ZAOU (Zambian Open University School of Law).