South Africa Executes 7
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Seven men went to the gallows in Pretoria at dawn Friday, bringing the total number of executions in South Africa this year to 96, officials said.
A prisons department spokesman said the seven--five black and two Colored (mixed-race) men--were hanged for five murders committed in Cape Town and in four small towns in Transvaal province.
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