Ghana: Abolish Death Penalty

editorial

A recent judicial incident of momentous implications has gone unnoticed and that is the setting free from prison of one Benard Tagoe who had been on death row for the past 24 years. The noteworthy event was engendered by an Appeal Court decision which overturned a lower court's Death Penalty sentence slapped on Benard when he was then a student at age 18.

The Appeal Court premised its landmark judgment on new evidence which exonerated Benard from a crime he had wrongfully bore for 24 long years in condemned prisons at Nsawam. But for divine intervention, Benard would have tasted death, and that would have been one of the gravest travesty of justice in Ghana's legal history.

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