Parliament has passed the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill 2022, technically expunging death penalty from Ghana’s laws.
By the Bill, the President will be empowered to commute death penalty into life imprisonment.
The Bill was passed by Parliament on Tuesday, July 25.
The death penalty has been in Ghana’s Criminal Offences Code but has not been signed by any President in the Fourth Republic.
Most human rights advocates had called for an expunction of that penalty.
By the passage of the Bill, no offender will suffer punishment by death.
Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who is also a lawyer, was happy with the “feat”, asking the country to celebrate such gesture.
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