21.   Many blacks say such killings by whites in rural areas were not uncommon in the apartheid era, and those killers routinely went unpunished.

22.   Such a sentence might appeal to jurors who fear that a convicted killer could go free or who cannot decide whether to give a death sentence, Lucio said.

23.   When the killer went to collect the money he was trapped by the children of her victim who had called the police and was immediately arrested.