The Respondent became a Party to the African Charter on Human
and
Peoples’
Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Charter”) on 1
March 1989, and to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human
and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”), on 16
August
2005.
It deposited,
on 10 March
2011,
a declaration
under
Article 34(6) of the Protocol, accepting the jurisdiction of the Court to
receive cases from individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations.
Furthermore,
the Respondent
became
a party to the
International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the
Covenant”), on 7 September 2000.
SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION
The
Applicant
states
that
he
was
convicted
of
murder
and
sentenced to death on 18 June, 2008.1 The Court of Appeal and
the
Supreme
Court
of
Ghana
confirmed
the
conviction
and
sentence on 16 July, 2009 and 16 March, 2011, respectively. The
Applicant remains on death row awaiting execution.
The
Applicant
mandatory
alleges,
sentence
inter
of
alia,
death,
that
without
the
imposition
consideration
of the
of
the
individual circumstances of the offence or the offender, violates:
(a)
The right to life under Article 4 of the Charter ;
1 By the Fast Track High Court in Accra.
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