Английская Википедия:Capital punishment in Ghana

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Capital punishment is only a legal penalty in Ghana for high treason. Ghana last executed a criminal in 1993.[1] It is considered "Abolitionist in Practice."[2] Capital punishment was a mandatory sentence for certain ordinary criminal offenses until 2023.[3]

Seven new death sentences were handed down in 2021, while 165 people were on death row in Ghana at the end of 2021.[4]

On 25 July, 2023, the Parliament of Ghana voted to legally abolish capital punishment for ordinary offences. Capital punishment remains a prescribed penalty under the constitution for high treason. The country's legal code was amended to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment. The legislation was tabled by Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, who described it as a "great advancement of the human rights record of Ghana."[5]

The abolition of the death penalty in Ghana is not retroactive; as of August 2023 death sentences continued to be handed down for crimes committed before the abolition went into effect.[6]

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