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==External links==
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* Winslow, Dr. Robert. "[http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/botswana.html Botswana]." ([https://www.webcitation.org/6FPRQjXRP Archive]) ''A Comparative Criminology Tour of the World''. [[San Diego State University]].
* Winslow, Dr. Robert. "[https://www.webcitation.org/6FPRQjXRP?url=http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/africa/botswana.html Botswana]." ([https://www.webcitation.org/6FPRQjXRP Archive]) ''A Comparative Criminology Tour of the World''. [[San Diego State University]].
* "[http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/centre-for-capital-punishment-studies/news-and-events/news/news-items/death-penalty-five-years-after-bosch,-nothing-changed-in-botswana DEATH PENALTY: Five Years after Bosch, Nothing Changed in Botswana]." ([https://www.webcitation.org/6FPRJoIoa Archive]) [[University of Westminster]]. 1 November 2011.
* "[https://www.webcitation.org/6FPRJoIoa?url=http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/centre-for-capital-punishment-studies/news-and-events/news/news-items/death-penalty-five-years-after-bosch,-nothing-changed-in-botswana DEATH PENALTY: Five Years after Bosch, Nothing Changed in Botswana]." ([https://www.webcitation.org/6FPRJoIoa Archive]) [[University of Westminster]]. 1 November 2011.
** Full article: Gabotlale, Bester. "[http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/05/death-penalty-five-years-after-bosch-nothing-changed-in-botswana/ DEATH PENALTY: Five Years after Bosch, Nothing Changed in Botswana]." ''[[Inter Press Service]]''.
** Full article: Gabotlale, Bester. "[http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/05/death-penalty-five-years-after-bosch-nothing-changed-in-botswana/ DEATH PENALTY: Five Years after Bosch, Nothing Changed in Botswana]." ''[[Inter Press Service]]''.
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Botswana. It is one of a few democracies which continue to enforce it. The death sentence is usually issued upon murder under aggravated circumstances and is carried out by hanging. There is on average one execution per year, and the execution usually takes place few years after trial. One execution was carried out in 2016,[1] and two so far in 2018.

A widely recognized case was that of Mariette Bosch, a South African immigrant who was sentenced to death for murdering her lover's wife. She was sentenced in 1999 and executed two years later, one of the few white women ever officially executed in Africa.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Death sentences and executions in 2016". amnesty.org. Retrieved 13 August 2017.

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