The year death row got packed

Checking out: Mpe and Kgalalelo have a date with the hangman, barring any appeal
Checking out: Mpe and Kgalalelo have a date with the hangman, barring any appeal

In a new record, seven people were sentenced to death in 2017, joining others already on death row going through processes that almost inevitably conclude at the end of a rope. Staff Writers, MBONGENI MGUNI and PINI BOTHOKO report

By precedent, the road between the death penalty and execution is dark in Botswana. Few death penalty convicts have had their sentences overturned at the Court of Appeal (CoA) and even fewer have had their convictions set aside.

The road is also straight. Once a High Court Judge rules that he cannot find extenuating circumstances in a murder conviction, the sentence of death is almost always handed down.

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