A South African woman found guilty of a love-triangle murder in Botswana has been executed.
Mariette Bosch was hanged on Saturday 31st March 2001, two months after her appeal against the death sentence failed.

She spent a year on death row maintaining her innocence after a court found her guilty of murdering her best friend Ria Wolmerans, whose husband she later married.
 

President Festus Mogae refused to grant clemency
 
A panel of Commonwealth judges heard her appeal but decided she did not have a case.

Bosch's last hope was for President Festus Mogae to grant clemency but he made it clear that he was not going to.

State radio announced on Monday that Bosch had been executed at Gaborone's Central Maximum Prison on Saturday morning.

Commissioner of prisons Joseph Orebotse said no family members had been present at the hanging, as is customary in Botswana.

Bosch is the first white person and the fourth woman to be hanged in Botswana since independence.

The case attracted international attention and was dubbed "Botswana's white mischief" after the famous book about love betrayal in colonial Kenya.
 

Also this month:

Two women hanged in Afghanistan

The ruling Taleban in Afghanistan, have publicly executed two women who'd been convicted of prostitution.

Hundreds of people watched as the women were hanged in a sports stadium in the southern city of Kandahar.

Correspondents say that although public execution has become a common form of punishment in the country, it's relatively rare for women to be executed in this way.

Two further women, and ten men who were found guilty of adultery were publicly flogged
 

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"Sisters hanged in Jordan"

Two Egyptian women -- sisters in their twenties -- were hanged today  (Dec. 3rd 1998)  in Jordan after being convicted of murder.

The women were found guilty of murdering their employer and stealing money.