SAfrica: Judge orders ruling on apartheid killer

By Christopher Torchia

Published May 29, 2014 1:45pm ET

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SAfrica: Judge orders ruling on apartheid killer — FILE - This file photo taken Sept. 14, 1998, shows police death squad leader, Eugene de Kock, who was sentenced to two life terms and more than 200 years, after a killing spree that cost dozens of lives, at an amnesty hearing of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commision (TRC) in Pretoria, South Africa. A South African judge has ordered the government to decide within 30 days whether to grant parole to the former head of the covert police unit that tortured and killed dozens of people during white rule. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File) | Denis Farrell

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African judge has ordered the correctional services ministry to decide within 30 days whether to grant parole to the former head of a covert police unit that tortured and killed dozens of people during white rule.

Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled Wednesday in the case of Eugene de Kock, who confessed to murder and other crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. He has been in jail since 1994, when apartheid ended.

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