Capital crimes include aggravated murder, spying and armed robbery.

Capital crimes include aggravated murder, spying and armed robbery.
Article 14 of the Guinean penal code states that "those sentenced to death will be shot. If a woman sentenced to death is known to be pregnant, she may give birth and her sentence may be postponed for up to one year if the child lives that long."
In Guinea, female genital mutilation carries the death penalty, but it has never been applied.
Condemned prisoners can appeal to the Court of Cassation and the Head of State can grant a pardon.
On 23 May 2015, after three years of work, the proposed amendments to the Penal Code were validated in a ceremony held in Kindia. In her speech at the ceremony, Mrs. Sidy Souleymane N’Diaye, prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in Dixinn and also chairwoman of the Penal Code review committee, pointed out some major changes to the Penal Code, including the proposal to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with life imprisonment with a minimum term of imprisonment during which inmates cannot be granted work release, pardon or parole. In his validation’s address, the Minister of Justice, Mrs. Cheik Sacko, remarked that, in a State governed by the Rule of Law, it was important that legislation and judicial norms were “in line with international commitments, conventions and treaties that Guinea has ratified.”
In 2015, no death sentences were recorded in Guinea, where eleven people were under sentence of death at the end of the year.
The the last executions were carried out in 2001, after a de facto moratorium lasting since 1984. Eight people were executed in two separate cases: five people sentenced to death for murder, were put to death on 5 February, and three people sentenced to death for armed robbery, were shot on 21 April.
On 20 January 2015, Guinea was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council. The Government rejected the recommendations to immediately establish a de jure moratorium on executions with a view to definitely abolishing death penalty and adhering to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. However, Guinea reiterated its determination to observe the de facto moratorium, adding that it intends, in due course, to secure the abolition of the death penalty by means of a national campaign.
In December 2014, Guinea abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.