BOTSWANA: DEATH ROW INMATE FAILS TO GET COURT OF APPEAL REPRIEVE

the fate of death row inmate Sepeni Popo lies with Botswana President Festus Mogae after he failed to get a reprieve at the Court of Appeal. But Mogae, a confessed retributionist, has never pardoned a death row convict. Popo was sentenced to death last year by the Lobatse High Court for killing a Molepolole woman, Binki Balotlegi, in what was believed to be a ritual murder. He confessed that he was promised P1,000 for the murder. Three other men who were charged with him were later acquitted and discharged of murder.