The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) warmly welcomes the momentous vote by Ghana's parliament to abolish the death penalty. The vote, which removes the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act and the 1962 Armed Forces Act, was reportedly put forward by Member of Parliament Francis- Xavier Sosu and had the backing of the parliament's Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.
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