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Murderers must be executed - Rawlings
Rawlings said parliament must re-look at the execution law to decentralise that executive power to make it possible for regional security councils to execute those orders.
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His comment follows the murder of the Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa North constituency, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu who was stabbed at his Shiashie residence in Accra on February 9, 2016.
According to the former President, "Our constitution empowers us and gives us the right to punish, to exact the same level of punishment, and if we cannot do it, to serve as a lesson, to those who are taking others’ lives with ease, then please I’d like to use this occasion – I should have done this a long time ago – to invite parliament to consider the need to look into our constitution as to whether we should not now empower the regional security councils to sign or to approve the taking of a life for a life."
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He announced this when the family of the late MP visited him at his residence in Accra on Wednesday, March 16, 2016.
He noted that, "We all believe in the New Testament, but if some people are determined to conduct their lives along the Old Testament, then please let’s not give them the other cheek to slap."
See also: 'JB Danquah's death pains me' - Mahama
According to him, "If presidents of Ghana are refusing to sign execution orders of murderers on death row, parliament must re-look at the law to decentralise that executive power to make it possible for regional security councils to execute those orders.
Background
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Joseph Boakye Danquah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislator for Abuakwa North, was stabbed to death at his East Legon residence.
Mr Danquah was stabbed multiple times by an unknown assailant (s) at his Shiashie residence in Accra, which led to the arrest of one suspect, Daniel Asiedu, a 19-year-old boy.
It is suspected that the suspect used a ladder to climb to a roof linking to a terrace and then entered the MP's bedroom through a window and stabbed him.
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