The Member of
Parliament for the Madina constituency, Francis-Xavier Sosu has disclosed that
the Criminal Offences Amendment Act, which seeks to replace the death penalty
with life imprisonment has the backing of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
who is hopeful Parliament passes the bill into law.
Members of
Parliament were left divided while debating the amendment bill when
it was considered in Parliament on Friday, July 14.
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Making
supporting arguments for the abolishment of the death penalty on The Point
of View on Citi TV, the Madina legislator while upholding the
international conventions protecting human rights, said President Akufo-Addo
for the first time at the UN voted to support the scrapping of the death
penalty from the statutes of countries across the world.
“The president
[Nana Akufo-Addo] at the UN voted in favour of the abolishment of the death
penalty for the first time, and he has even made public statements in support
of the abolishment. It was the president that called for a cross-party approach
to passing this bill when stakeholders called on him, and so he fully endorses
and supports the position.”
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Mr. Sosu
emphasized that though the death penalty has not been applied since 1993, it
could be used at any time by a crooked government to hunt its opponents as in
the case of Myanmar.
“The government
in 1991 said there were not going to be executions again, but 12 people were
executed by firing squad in 1993 and from colonial times till 1993, 37 people
were killed.”
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“When you take
the case of Myanmar, the country had not used the law for 42 years, but it was
there on its books and last year when there was a military takeover, they used
it against their opponents and gave legal reasons where four leaders were
killed, and a hundred others were convicted to death.”
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