Nigeria’s senate proposes death penalty for drug trafficking
Nigeria's Senate on Thursday, May 9 proposed tougher penalties for drug trafficking, suggesting the death penalty as the new maximum ...
Tag: Death penalty
Congo reinstates death penalty after more than 20 years
Congo has lifted a more than two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant ...
Akufo-Addo assents to Bills abolishing death penalty in Ghana
The President, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, has assented to the Criminal Offences Amendment Act, 2023, and the Armed Forces Amendment ...
Parliament made Ghana proud by abolishing death penalty – Xavier Sosu
The Member of Parliament for the Madina constituency Francis-Xavier Sosu, says MPs have made the country proud by removing the ...
Amnesty International Ghana calls on MPs to support abolishing of death penalty
Amnesty International Ghana, a non-governmental organization (NGO), is appealing to all members of parliament (MPs) to vote in favour of ...
Bill to abolish death penalty has Akufo-Addo’s blessings – Xavier Sosu
The Member of Parliament for the Madina constituency, Francis-Xavier Sosu has disclosed that the Criminal Offences Amendment Act, which seeks ...
Abolishing death penalty will increase mob justice – Avoka
The Member of Parliament for Zebilla constituency in the Upper East Region, Cletus Apul Avoka, has kicked against calls for ...
Duncan-Williams backs calls for abolishment of death penalty
The presiding archbishop and general overseer of the Action Chapel International ministry, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, has expressed his support for ...
MPs divided over report aimed at replacing death penalty with life sentence
Members of Parliament (MPs) are divided over the report of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on the Criminal ...
Gertrude Torkornoo calls for review of death penalty
Gertrude Torkornoo, the nominee for Chief Justice of Ghana, has called on Parliament to review the country's death penalty laws. ...
Nana Addo pledges support for Sosu’s Private Members Bill to abolish death penalty
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged support to the two Private Member’s Bills initiated by Madina MP, Francis-Xavier Sosu, ...
Death penalty in Ghana: Woes of 83-year-old Konadu and her 40 years on the death row [Article]
Now, this is the story of Konadu. Konadu (not real name) was a farmer who owned a cocoa farm. She ...
Madina MP urges Ghanaians to support abolition of death penalty
Mr. Francis-Xavier Sosu, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, has rallied Ghanaians to support efforts to abolish the death ...
Francis-Xavier Sosu writes: It’s time to remove death penalty from Ghana’s statute books
Great exercise for God and Country. Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Alfred Tuah-Yeboah’s views on the death penalty was an anti-climax ...
‘If murderers have to be killed; so be it’- Deputy AG nominee backs death penalty
A Deputy Attorney General-designate, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has opposed calls for the abolishment of the death penalty from Ghana's statutes. The ...
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