Sandra Smith (criminal)

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Sandra Smith ({{circa|1965}} – 2 June 1989) was a South African woman condemned to death by hanging in 1986 for robbery-homicide alongside her boyfriend, Yassiem Harris. She was the last known woman executed in the country. In November 1989, president F W de Klerk ordered a nationwide moratorium, stopping executions until further notice. In S v Makwanyane in 1995, the Constitutional Court of South Africa declared that capital punishment be abolished, being incompatible with the provisional constitution of 1993.{{cite web |title=Sandra Smith - the last woman to be hanged in South Africa |url=https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/sandra.html |website=www.capitalpunishmentuk.org |access-date=1 December 2020}}