Read Comments Comments (2)

• Kofi Kyinto Kumah 11 years ago

  Willie, I beg to differ. You rightly said since 1993 no person on death penalty roll has been executed in Ghana. Major country like USA who claims to be champion of human rights still has death penalty in many of its States e ...
  read full comment

  Willie, I beg to differ. You rightly said since 1993 no person on death penalty roll has been executed in Ghana. Major country like USA who claims to be champion of human rights still has death penalty in many of its States even though USA is a State Party to the UDHR. For me I think we should still maintain death penalty in our laws because Ghana is considered as an abolitionist in practice country. Let those who are on death roll be there at the pleasure of the President. If you go the prisons in Ghana, there is a notice board that lists the number of prisoners who are on death roll at the pleasure of the President. By the way why are you only interested in Johnson's case while there are other persons on death roll in Ghana prisons. Anyway, we are all expressing our views on this issue.
  Below is the list of abolitionist in pratice countries.
  
  ABOLITIONIST IN PRACTICE
  Countries which retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes such as murder but can be considered abolitionist in practice in that they have not executed anyone during the past 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions. The list also includes countries which have made an international commitment not to use the death penalty:
  Algeria, Benin, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic of), Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Nauru, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tonga, Tunisia, and Zambia.
  Willie, how are you doing? This is your friend Kofi Kyinto Kumah of "Weekend Chronicle" fame. I still remember our days at "The Chronicle".

  reply
• Richie 11 years ago

  Kofi,good points raised, but it looks like this article is not about singling out this individual's case per se or making the case for the abolition of the death penalty in Ghana. This article is about Ghana living up to its ...
  read full comment

  Kofi,good points raised, but it looks like this article is not about singling out this individual's case per se or making the case for the abolition of the death penalty in Ghana. This article is about Ghana living up to its international obligations which it freely entered into. It submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee it has to give effect to its decisions,anaa?

  reply