Death penalty may be applied

In July 2008, following a string of armed robberies, the Parliament adopted the Armed Robbery Act, including provisions allowing for the death penalty for homicides committed during acts of armed robbery, terrorism or hijacking. Liberian Penal Code of 1976, already included the possibility of the death penalty for murder as well armed robbery, mercernarism, terrorism, hijacking, treason, espionage resulting in the death were capital offences but the new law goes against Liberia’s international commitments. On 16 September 2005, in fact, the National Transitional Government, led by Charles Gyude Bryant, had acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who could have opposed the legislation of 2008, signed it into law.
It seems that courts are ruling as if the Penal Code of 1976 is unaffected by the 2005 accession to the Second Optional Protocol.
In 2014, the Ministry of Justice initiated a bill to abolish the death penalty and life imprisonment for juvenile offenders, while the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) also advocated for a Constitutional amendment abolishing the death penalty pursuant to the Constitution Review Committee process.
In 2015, no executions or death sentences were recorded in Liberia. The last executions, 14, took place in 2000.
As of 18 February 2015, nine persons were on death row, according to the Government.

United Nations
On 4 May 2015, Liberia was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council. In its National Report, the Government said that Liberia acknowledged its international obligations under the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. However, in its response to the recommendations received, the Government did not support recommendations to abolish the death penalty.
On December 19, 2016, Liberia, as in previous years, abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.