A judge of the African Court has told Ghana Business News in an exclusive interview that the death sentence remains in the books for some other offences. And the death sentence, the African Court, in our interpretation of Article 4, what we are saying is that, if your law prescribes mandatory imposition of death sentence, then it is in violation. But if you look at Ghana, under the military and under the constitution, once a death sentence is imposed, we must sentence you to death by hanging. We have the West Africa, East Africa, North Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa, and each of them nominates a male and a female judge. Maybe you start from the High Court, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, or where it is a case that you can go to the Supreme Court straight, then you must go to the Supreme Court first.

Source: Ethiopian News November 21, 2024 17:02 UTC