The parliament of Ghana on Tuesday, July 26, 2023, voted to abolish the death penalty, making the country the latest of several African nations that have moved to repeal capital punishment in recent years.
Since 1993, under the late president Rawlings, no one has been executed in Ghana, although 176 people were on death row as of last year, according to the Ghana prisons service.
According to a parliamentary committee report, the new bill will amend the state's Criminal Offences Act to substitute life imprisonment for the death penalty. President Nana Akufo-Addo still has to assent for the law to take effect.
The country is the 29th country to abolish the death penalty in Africa and the 124th globally.
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