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Mason to die by hanging

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  • Ola 9 years ago

    This is a fight between to men Dat went wrong ,this is not murder,from the facts

  • STEVE 9 years ago

    Are u normal, I guess you are on drugs. Murder can't occur without fight. Every murder starts from fight or struggle. My advice to human beings is we don't have to let money to swallow us up not to live in a happier life with ...
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  • don`t care !!! © Hmmmmm! 9 years ago

    Hmmmmmmm!

  • Theo 9 years ago

    These Trokosis are animals. Killing another nyebro over ten cedis?


    Trokosi smelly fool, is that all you can say, hmmmmmm?

  • don`t care !!! © Hmmmmm! 9 years ago

    what are the common things you see daily in ur village..pls don`t tell me is bushes;then you are a bushman!...Hahahhaha

    For a dreamer, night's the only time of day...pls don`t let the above be said abt you!bushman!

  • ROYAL AKANLAND 9 years ago

    YES IT IS

  • GHFUO, nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 9 years ago

    Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought, either express or implied. It is distinguished from voluntary manslaughter by the absence of intention. Involuntary manslaughter i ...
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  • The Scientist 9 years ago

    Stephen Dzamesi died due to incompetence and negligence of the hospital.

    how on earth did this health care facility missed to diagnose the internal bleeding of the patient,Mr Dzamezi.

    These kinna situation is prevalent ...
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  • Ghfuo, heaven is NOT for idiots! 9 years ago

    The case must be appealed. Kouffie must do a 2/3yrs and upon his release be placed on parole.conditions. Was dzamasei neglected becos of his ethnicity and economic depravity? Wat medication or medical treatment was netted out ...
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  • OT 9 years ago

    Who told you every murder start with a fight or struggle?

    If you shoot an innocent person who is not even aware a gun was aimed at him, do you call it a fight or struggle?

    What about a spouse poisoning his or her partn ...
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  • STEVE 9 years ago

    There is a difference between kill and murder from legal terms. When you shoot an innocent child, you have killed a child not you have murdered the child. But if a trouble exists between you and the child and you shoot the ch ...
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  • Odei 9 years ago

    I don't think it is 1st degree Murder, but second degree. Because it is not 'premeditated'. This is the legal situation that if the guy had a good attorney would have gotten like 20 yrs with some parole possibilities. He did ...
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  • GHFUO, nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 9 years ago

    THIS JUDGE IS EITHER DUMB OR THE DEFENDANT'S LAWYER IS REALLY TERRIBLE...LOL THIS DEATH WAS NOT INTENDED. THISIS NOT MURDER 1 OR MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. THIS IS INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER - NO INTENT. SO WHY PUNISH HIM BY H ...
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  • Ignorance 9 years ago

    My friend you do not know the law. The accused should have known that hitting his friend several times with the shovel in the abdomen is likely to lead to death and truly it resulted into that. Do not forget the 1 year 1 day ...
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  • Naa Adukwei 9 years ago

    does that rule still exist? in any case, the law is law. doesn't deal with what you "should have" known. it deals with fact and evidence. He's obviously guilty and needs to be punished, but this punishment is not commensurate ...
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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go.ASAP! 9 years ago

    There is no.denying the autopsy report in this case. Internal bleeding from a blunt tool/shovel. Evidently, William koffie didn't mean to kill dzamesi becos he could have done that with the shovel right there. Why didn't he? ...
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  • Ola 9 years ago

    Fucking idiot,do you know law?aboa like you,do u know WAT manslaughter entails

  • SGT ANANI FIADZAOE 9 years ago

    I highly agree with you, Ola I don't
    seem to see how and why he should be given such a sentence by the so-called
    Atuguba kind of Judges and corrupt so-called Juries.

  • gh vi 9 years ago

    Sgt. u r very wrong. when u hit a person once, in a fight and it results in his death, a defense of manslaughter may hold. when u however continuously hit ur victim with an offensive weapon even after u have immobilised him, ...
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  • Naa Adukwei 9 years ago

    you're right though...but nothing is said about the action/attitude of the victim during the scuffle so there's a question mark somewhere

  • Thessa 9 years ago

    This was not a fight between two men but a fivht between two sheep(Ewes)

  • peeeeeeeee 9 years ago

    Hahahaha capsized

  • Kwamina 9 years ago

    To be guilty of murder there should be a pre-intent to commit the crime. There is no pre-intent here. The charge should be manslaughter which does not carry a death sentence. His lawyers should appeal to the High Court!

  • KWAA 9 years ago

    This is really manslaughter,there was no intention of killing.It was a fight resulting into death.
    I hope the Lawyers of the convit will appeal this sentance.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Yes, this is a clear case of manslaughter. Those who the judges should be sentencing to death are the armed robbers.

  • Truthiness 9 years ago

    "He was said to have hit the deceased, Stephen Dzamesi, several times on different parts of the body during a fight over a cash amount of GH¢20.00."

    Chief, the above might have been the game changer. The first blow might ...
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  • FOR DESTROYING GHANA 9 years ago

    GHANA TURNED INTO ZONGO

  • INCOMPETENT FOOL 9 years ago

    TAANI-ABOAAAAAAAAA

  • GHANABA 1 9 years ago

    Why such a punishment whilst there is no concrete evidence? Is there any Forensic proof?They are talking about Autopsy, Ghanaian judges behave like fools and the most foolish one is Atuguba.
    What law permits one to be punish ...
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  • don`t care !!! © Hmmmmm! 9 years ago

    Hmmmmm!& if the dead could have been your brother...what will be your judgement...

    hmmmm!when human beings are behaving like gorilla}a large ape that comes from western Africa]

  • Theo 9 years ago

    Say trokosis are not human beings.

  • don`t care !!! © Hmmmmm! 9 years ago

    The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  • AG 9 years ago

    Life for life is only fare

  • Olabode 9 years ago

    Bushman Ola’ pursuing selective ‘bushman jungle justice ’, very akin to these bushmen’s trademark. Exchange ‘Dzamesi ‘for ‘Richardson’, and the comments would be completely opposite. These guys have no shame! ...
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  • obroni 9 years ago

    Ola you are right , this is manslaughter
    .

  • Lawyer Agbangbalu 9 years ago

    My friend it seems you also don't know the law. Take the Criminal Offences act 29/60 and read.His appeal will nork work at all. He should go to hell and kill no more

  • GHANA vs HOLLAND 9 years ago

    THE AUTOPSY REPORT WAS NOT ACCURATE .MASON DESERVE FAIR TRIAL AND HE NEED GOOD ATTORNEY TO SAVE HIS LIFE . THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE SHOULDN'T BE MORE THAN 25 YEARS .

  • Antiochus - London 9 years ago

    What a cruel world. Hanging because of 20GHC.

  • don`t care !!! © Hmmmmm! 9 years ago

    ur comment!hmmm..

  • Odei 9 years ago

    No sir! can't you get it? Dead because he refused to be cheated, said no to corruptness and demanded to be treated fairly. I do not think the punishment is appropriate but do not comment ignorantly. Remember the victim here i ...
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  • Ayigbe 9 years ago

    Why can't these Ewes stay in their poverty-stricken Volta region? Why should they continue to troop Ashanti region doing slave work? Please Rawling, come and take your Trokosi people out from Akan lands

  • Joe Lartey 9 years ago

    I thought they said Mahama to die by hanging. If Manson to die by hanging then Mahama too must die by hanginghangighanging. The man is criminal and murderous. Let him tell us who killed Atta Mills. Mhama to die by firing squa ...
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  • ETA 9 years ago

    but one dead ewe is 20 times better than 200 asantes and that is a fact.

  • peeeeeeeee 9 years ago

    Eta i wish you die tomorrow

  • agboga 9 years ago

    then u and ur whole family will follow

  • Kwame Asante 9 years ago

    Forget about this tribal sentiments and let us learn something. Asantes, and Ewes are all Ghanaians. Volta Region and Ashanti Region all form part of Ghana.

  • me 9 years ago

    This cannot in anyway be murder, sad as it is though. The man was provoked into a fight or probably assaulted by the dead first. I am not sure his intention was to kill him in his self defence. If he had gone to hit the man a ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    When does an intention to kill starts in law. 30, 40 minutes, or 1 seconds before the murder?

  • Abaacha 9 years ago

    Voltarians indeed inward looking people.

  • the truth 9 years ago

    stop your ignorance fool. comment about the subject matter and stop insulting your fellow Ghanaians

  • JANTUA 9 years ago

    I AGREE, THIS IS INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. THESE JUDGES ARE SICK.

  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    This is second degree murder I think.. Life imprisonment will be the just sentence.

  • Naa Adukwei 9 years ago

    This judge was too wrong to pronounce such a sentence. This is not even 1st degree murder, it's manslaughter.How do you give a death sentence for a crime that does not even merit a life sentence???? Something must be done abo ...
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  • Asoreba 9 years ago

    These so-called "Health Centers" with on competent staff and medication must be blamed for all these unnecessary deaths. If the "Doctor" at the "Bomfa Health Center" was competent enough, he or she should have known that the ...
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  • LIZ 9 years ago

    According to the article the deceased was treated at Bomfa Health Centre by a doctor and was released. What type of medication was given to the deceased at the clinic? Giving wrong medication could have trigged the intern ...
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  • Lolulou 9 years ago

    Its manslaughter. The sentence is too extreme!

  • ADONGO 9 years ago

    Bonfa health center should also be charged for negligence

  • Kwesi Brenu 9 years ago

    How come these armed robbers are still having lives to live in jail while they kill people in gruesome ways ?