20 December 2023 :

The Gaborone High Court has sent a convicted child rapist and murderer to the gallows. Chief Justice Terrence Rannowane sentenced Ramatshwiri Mokobela to death on December 14, 2023 for killing a five-year-old girl-child in the Ghanzi District area.
Mokobela, who was 25 years old at the time he committed the crime, was on a previous court appearance found guilty without any extenuating circumstances for allegedly sexually assaulting the minor and later killing her by slitting her throat with a knife.
When handing down the sentence, Rannowane said there was no excuse for what Mokobela did and that at the time he committed the offence he was old enough to know the difference between right and wrong.

20 September 2023 :

A 38-year-old Sashemooke man who raped and murdered the daughter of his live-in lover was sentenced to death on August 24, 2023 for the offence in Botswana.
In addition, Koolopile Makhura was sentenced to 20 years in jail for raping Bame Tebelelo, 14.
Makhura committed the offences on September 23, 2019 in Shashemooke.
When delivering the ruling on whether there were extenuating circumstances that warranted the court to pass any sentence other than the death penalty, Justice Lot Moroka said he came to the conclusion that Makhura’s actions on that fateful day were well calculated.