Ghana: Public lets execution call pass

A senior Ghanaian justice department official has expressed surprise that the government has failed to ban capital punishment, implicitly censuring lawmakers for their recent endorsement of two new pro-death penalty judges to the Supreme Court. The current law permitting the death penalty was ''obnoxious'', the deputy attorney general, Kwame Osei-Bempah, told IPS. ''There is no reason why it should remain on our law books.''