General News of Wednesday, 16 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comDeputy Attorney General-designate, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah has urged the government not to scrap the death penalty from our books to serve as a deterrent for others not to commit murder. Answering a question about why the death sentence should not be abolished, the Deputy Attorney General-designate stated, “Life is precious but that doesn’t mean you should take someone’s life. He said, “As you have in the US, grading murders, some of them I subscribe to the execution of their sentence. If it's murder and they have to be killed, they must be killed.”As a realist and positivist, the nominee said, “At times it serves as a signal to others that it doesn’t pay to kill. MP for Madina also stated that although Amnesty International and a couple of citizens don’t ascribe to the death penalty, Ghana’s peculiar situation cannot be compared to countries where the crime rate is low.

Source: GhanaWeb June 16, 2021 06:22 UTC