Parliament has passed the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill 2022 into law, to abolish the death sentence penalty from the country’s statutes.
Persons found guilty of murder, if the president assents to it, henceforth, would be sentenced to life imprisonment, the new law provides.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, on Friday, July 14, 2023, deferred the decision on the report of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on the Bill to get more MPs involved in the decision. Read more.
