Botswana has hanged a man for murdering his girlfriend and her son, the first execution in two years by the only southern African nation not to have abolished the death penalty.
Joseph Poni Tselayarona, 28, was executed on Saturday after the 2010 murder of his girlfriend and her three-year-old son, the Botswana Prison Service said.
Tselayarona murdered his girlfriend in cold blood by stabbing her with a trimmer and a screwdriver in front of her son.
In his confession statement, which was admitted as evidence in court, Tselayarona stated he also tried to commit suicide with a screwdriver and by cutting his neck veins with a glass. He said he stayed in the house for two days with the corpses, but left the house to visit his friends at Newtown, before the Police arrested him on the fifth day.
