Whether it is a minister, an official or an ordinary man. If it is found that they had planned to kill another person, they should be killed," he said. He asserted that even if he is to call Batlokwa to the main Kgotla this morning and raise the death penalty issue, they would all endorse it. "It is straightforward, killers must be killed, no compromise," he said.
Gaborone was adamant that the rights of people who kill with intention are not more important than the rights of the people they have killed. "Everybody must know that the murdered were people who also deserved rights, whose parents wanted them to be alive, and who got the right to live from God," he stressed. He said that Botswana should maintain the death penalty to deter would-be killers. He cited neighbouring South Africa where there is no death penalty and now innocent people are unable to enjoy their independence because criminals are holding them at ransom. "Even the most advanced democracy - the United States of America - is still maintaining the death penalty," he said.
