Ghana
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- April 28, 1992
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English and customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Parliament
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court; High Court, Court of Appeal, regional courts
RELIGIONS
68.8% Christians, 15.9% Muslims, 8.5% traditional, others
From the country
JANUARY 25, 2024GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: SIX SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2021 COUP PLOT
A Ghana court on January 24, 2024 sentenced six people to death by hanging, including three soldiers, for their involvement in an alleged plot three years ago to overthrow the country's government.
AUGUST 10, 2023GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR OFFERING SON AS SACRIFICE
An Accra High Court has sentenced to death a 33-year-old man for throwing his two-year-old son into the sea at Akuma Village, Accra, as sacrifice in his bid to become rich, Ghana News Agency reported on August 10, 2023.
JULY 26, 2023GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Ghana's parliament on July 25, 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.
MAY 2, 2023GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: ASABKE ALANDI SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR ADAMS MAHAMA’S MURDER
An Accra High Court has sentenced to death Asabke Alandgi, one of two persons accused of the murder of Adams Mahama, a former Upper East Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Pulse reported on 28 April 2023.
- NOVEMBER 7, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTY
GHANA: PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO WANTS DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED
President Akufo-Addo has joined the campaign to get the death penalty expunged from the country’s laws.
OCTOBER 24, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: JUSTICE SAMUEL ASIEDU ADVOCATES ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, nominated to the Supreme Court, has advocated the abolition of the Death Penalty.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: 34-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
Cape Coast High Court in the Central Region of Ghana has sentenced a 34-year-old man to death by hanging for murder, Ghana Web reported on 20 September 2022.
JUNE 16, 2022GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: FETISH PRIEST SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SACRIFICING WIFE AND DAUGHTER TO GODS
A 38-year old Ghanaian fetish priest who killed his wife and daughter and sacrificed them to his idols has been sentenced to death, Pulse reported on 3 June 2022.
MARCH 6, 2021GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: TWO NIGERIANS TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING FOUR GIRLS
Two Nigerians who were accused of kidnapping and eventually killing four girls in Takoradi, Ghana, were on 5 March 2021 afternoon sentenced to death by a court in the country after they were found guilty of murder.
JULY 6, 2020GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO GRANTS AMNESTY TO 794 PRISONERS
President Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 794 prisoners in Ghana as part of efforts to decongest the prisons in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
MAY 16, 2020GhanaDEATH PENALTYGHANA: JUSTICE HONYENUGA CALLS FOR THE REPEAL OF DEATH PENALTY
A nominee to the Supreme Court, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga has called for the scrapping of the death penalty from the country’s statutes.
- JANUARY 1, 2020GhanaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty has been in Ghana’s statute books since the inception
The death penalty has been in Ghana’s statute books since the inception