: Following the assassination of the "Cradock Four" and rising unrest, President P.W. Botha declared a national State of Emergency in 1986, granting security forces nearly unlimited power.
: Sentences were heavily biased; data from 1982–1983 shows that 95% of those sentenced to death were Black. Black activists were often executed for killing white police officers, while white individuals rarely faced the same penalty for killing Black citizens. 2. High-Profile Cases and Campaigns (1986) Death Sentence - Anti-Apartheid (1986)
: Between 1960 and 1989, approximately 134 political prisoners were executed by the apartheid government. : Following the assassination of the "Cradock Four"
: In the mid-1980s, the state increasingly used the "common purpose" legal doctrine to sentence groups of activists to death, even if they were not directly responsible for a specific killing. Death Sentence - Anti-Apartheid (1986)