on behalf of Hands Off Cain, MP and Speaker of the OSCE

on behalf of Hands Off Cain, MP and Speaker of the OSCE on Human Rights, Democracy and Humantiarian Issues, Matteo Mecacci, attended in Accra, Ghana, the National Conference Constitutional. The conference was a crucial step in the process that the Constitutional Review Commission, established by the President of the Republic, started a year before, to amend the Constitution of Ghana in 1992.
Among the topics to address the Conference there were human rights and, in particular, the question of whether or not to keep the death penalty in the new constitution. Among the topics to address the Conference there were human rights and, in particular, the question of whether or not to keep the death penalty in the new constitution. The National Constitutional Conference, was inaugurated on 1 March by President John Evans Atta Mills and concluded on March 5. It provided the Constitutional Review Commission its first proposals. These proposals were then presented to President of the Republic who should share them with the government and then submit to Parliament.
The debate began with the pre-eminent position in favor of maintaining the death penalty, but later it was decided to transmit to the Commissioners an open position against the two options-maintenance and abolition of the death penalty - with the various arguments for and against, in addition to request the President to clarify and explain his position on the issue. When on December 20th the Constitutional Review Commission presented its final report to the President, among recommendations there was the elimination of the death penalty from the Constitution and the penal codes of the country.