General
160 inmates on Ghana’s death row – Amnesty International
The Death Penalty violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Africa
Nigeria harbours 53% of death row inmates in Sub-Saharan Africa
Observed every 10th of October, the World Day Against the Death Penalty consolidates the global movement against capital punishment and mobilizes civil society, political leaders, activists, lawyers, change agents and more to support the ca...
Vanguard Nigeria
General
AG reveals 163 prison inmates are currently on death row
Clause 2 of the Constitution (Amendment) (Entrenched Provisions) Bill provides for the abolition of the death penalty.
DL News
Africa
Death penalty abolished in Zimbabwe
Human rights organization Amnesty International commended the decision, calling it a "beacon of hope" for regional movements advocating against the death penalty. However, the group expressed concerns over a provision allowing the death pen...
DL News
Africa
Lesotho: Death penalty for HIV rapists unconstitutional, top court rules
In particular, the court held that stipulating the death penalty for a convicted rapist, held to have known he was HIV positive at the time of the crime, infringed the constitutional right to freedom from discrimination and to a right to eq...
AllAfrica
General
UK-based ‘Death Penalty Project’ to assist Ghana to remove Death Penalty
Ghana’s ability to do so will put it in the over one hundred and twenty(120 countries globally that have rejected the death penalty.
DL News
General
Ghana Armed Forces declares support for death penalty abolishment
Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency, Hon. Francis Xavier Sosu in June 2021 introduced a private member’s bill for the removal of the death penalty from the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
DL News
Africa
Poor Kenyans likely to end up on death row - Study
Kenya's death penalty disproportionately affects people from low-income households, many of whom lack proper legal representation.
DW
US
Expedite action on the bill to abolish death penalty-UNA-GH
At the end of 2020, at least 28,567 people were known to be under sentence of death. Of this figure, 483 executions were recorded in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657 recorded in 2019.
DL News
Courts
37 Military Hospital slapped with over GHS1M for woman’s death at childbirth
Management of the hospital subsequently launched an investigation into the matter.
DL News
US
South Carolina Prepares for First Firing Squad Execution in 15 Years
Sigmon will be strapped into a chair inside South Carolina’s death chamber. A target will be placed over his heart, and he may choose to say final words before a hood is placed over his head.
Lawyer Monthly
General
Parliament passes Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill 2022, abolishing death penalty
“The Criminal Offences Amendment Act, 2022 is duly read the third time and duly passed," Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin said.
DL News
Crime
165 currently on the death row in Ghana – Amnesty Int’l Report reveals
This was revealed at a news conference to launch its Death Sentence and Execution Report.
DL News
Africa
Two Ugandan males face death penalty for violating anti-gay law
Uganda last hanged a convict in 1999 and in 2005 formally scrapped the death penalty. But the anti-homosexuality law reintroduced the death penalty for the offense of aggravated homosexuality
VOA Africa
Courts
Court orders 37 Military Hospital to release report on death of 48-year-old man to family
The Court presided over by Justice Charles Ekow Baiden, a Justice of the Court of Appeal sitting as an additional High Court Judge, ordered that the report should be released within 10 days
GNA
Africa
Sierra Leone parliament passes bill to abolish death penalty
The bill now awaits presidential assent from President Julius Maada Bio.
DL News
Asia
Japan ‘Black Widow’ serial killer loses death sentence appeal
Kakehi was sentenced to death in 2017 for the killings, which occurred between 2007 and 2013 in Kyoto, Osaka and Hyogo.
DL News
Courts
Couple sues St. John Hospital & Fertility Centre for GH₵5m over medical negligence
The couple, Mr Ekow Andoh and Mrs Sandra Tekyiwaa Sackey, in their statement of claim, prayed the Court for a declaration that the defendant was vicariously liable for the medical negligence of its employee health workers, whose negligent o...
GNA
Others
Singapore executes man for supplying cannabis
Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was hanged at dawn on Wednesday over a plot to smuggle 1kg (35oz) of cannabis.
BBC
Opinion
Navigating An Application For Letters Of Administration: A Practical Guide for the Lawyer and the Judge from First Instructions to the Final Administration of the Estate
The article provides a practical guide to applications for Letters of Administration in Ghana, covering the lawyer’s duties in investigating the deceased’s family, assets, liabilities and entitlement to administer the estate. It also explai...
HH Malcolm Bedzrah