A UK-based NGO has stormed the Parliament of Ghana to commend the Speaker Alban Bagbin and MPs for repealing the death penalty Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project UK, Saul Lehrfreund told the Speaker when he visited Parliament that the repeal of the law was truly historic Lehrfreund thanked the Speaker especially for his historic leadership and guidance without which Parliament may not have repealed the law.
Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin and the entire Legislature has received praise from Death Penalty Project UK for repealing the death penalty from Ghana’s statute books. The organisation is a legal action NGO at Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP that uses the law to protect prisoners facing execution and achieve fairer and more humane justice systems.
Ghana’s Parliament on Tuesday, July 25 and Thursday, July 27 2023, made history by passing the Criminal and Other Offenses (Amendment) Bill, 2022, and Armed Forces (Amendment) Bill, 2022. The legislature will substitute life imprisonment for the death penalty. Human Rights and Public Interest Lawyer and Member of Parliament for Madina Constituency, Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu led efforts for the passage of the law.