Capital punishment in Botswana

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. At least one execution was carried out in 2016.

According to official statistics issued in 1998, 32 persons were hanged between independence in 1966 and 1997. 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 executed in Africa.

See also

• Botswana Prison Service

External links

• Winslow, Dr. Robert. "Botswana." (Archive) A Comparative Criminology Tour of the World. San Diego State University.
• "DEATH PENALTY: Five Years after Bosch, Nothing Changed in Botswana." (Archive) University of Westminster. 1 November 2011.
  • Full article: Gabotlale, Bester. "DEATH PENALTY: Five Years after Bosch, Nothing Changed in Botswana." Inter Press Service.

• Novak, Andrew (student author). "Guilty of Murder with Extenuating Circumstances: Transparency and the Mandatory Death Penalty in Botswana." (Archive) Boston University International Law Journal. Spring (northern hemisphere) 2009. Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 173. ISSN 0737-8947. Available on EBSCOHost, HeinOnline, and LexisNexis Academic.
• Gabaakanye executed 25 May 2016