Death Penalty Abolished, Offenders to Serve Life Sentence: Ghana
Persons found guilty of murder, if the president assents to it, henceforth, would be sentenced to life imprisonment, the new law provides.
The object of the Bill, the report of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee report on the bill states, is to"reform the criminal justice system of Ghana to meet the needs of an emerging society and to bring it in tandem with international best practices of criminal jurisprudence".
The bill has divided opinions in the House with some members, across the aisle opposed to it, but as parliamentary democracy dictates, majority carried the day.
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