Government must abolish death penalty to save taxpayers' millions

Lawyers have tried the Constitutional route before to challenge the death penalty and all have failed on account that the Court of Appeal is of the opinion that the death penalty has been sanctioned as a law by the Legislature and as such their lordships are not desirous of usurping the role of Parliament. As it is the only people who can abolish the death penalty are those at Parliament.

The Minister of Defence Honourable, Shaw Kgathi has explicitly stated that the debate on whether capital punishment must be abolished is a sensationalised debate as Batswana have not come forth to say the penalty must be abolished. Kgathi says “We are a democratic country, we are not a Government based on sensationalism.