Ghana still retains the death penalty for armed robbery, treason and first-degree murder.

The death penalty has been in Ghana’s statute books since the inception of English common law in the country in 1874. 
Ghana still retains the death penalty for armed robbery, treason and first-degree murder.
Under Article 72 of the Constitution the president may exercise the Prerogative of Mercy and grant amnesty.
According to human rights activists and the Ghana Bar Association, at least 155 people were executed between 1984 and 1993 when former President Jerry Rawlings headed an iron-fisted military government. Many were soldiers suspected of coup plotting.
The 2000 presidential and parliamentary elections – the first in the country that saw a transfer of power through elections – saw John Kufuor take over from Jerry Rawlings, who had been in power for over 20 years as coup leader first, then as democratically-elected president since 1992.
In April 2000, 100 people had their death sentences commuted to life terms. In February 2001, the then Justice Minister, and present Foreign Minister, Nana Akufo-Addo, spoke out publicly against the death penalty. In June 2003, nearly ten years after the last execution (July 1993), President John Agyekum Kufuor, known as the "Gentle Giant", granted amnesty to 179 prisoners that had spent at least ten years on death row.
No executions have taken place since July 1993, when 12 prisoners who had been convicted of armed robbery or murder were executed by firing squad. Executions may also be carried out by hanging but Ghana's last hanging was performed in 1968.
On February 12, 2002, Edward Anim Densu was sentenced to death by hanging by the Koforidua High Court. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
According to the records at the country’s prisons as of October 25, 2005, there were 148 people on death row.
On September 17, 2004, Justice Felix Michael Lartey, member of Supreme Court of Ghana, argued that death sentence should be expunged from the country's statute books because it was not serving any purpose.
On October 25, 2005, at a public symposium in Accra, Minister of Justice and Attorney General Ayikoi Otto joined other key players in the administration of Ghana’s justice system in a call for the abolition of the death penalty.