Botswana's independent media, six major weekly newspapers and two radio stations, enjoy a remarkable degree of press freedom. Articles and editorials regularly criticise the president and his government and while the government often replies in letters to the editors, no official action has ever been taken against them. BTV and the Daily News freesheet are under the wing of the government and controlled by the Director of Information and Broadcasting. Four weeks after Bosch's execution, a row continues in the independent media over how she died and the advisability of Botswana continuing to retain the death penalty. Every edition of every newspaper published since the execution has carried reports and readers' letters on it.
Opinion seems to be swinging towards the abolitionists.