Murder, armed robbery, terrorism and high treason are capital crimes.

Murder, armed robbery, terrorism and high treason are capital crimes. Under current Liberian law, rape is a first-degree felony if the rapist inflicts serious bodily injuries on the victim, and carries the death penalty or life imprisonment. Condemned prisoners can appeal to the Supreme Court. The Head of State can grant a pardon.
Liberia was frequently denounced for human rights violations by international and humanitarian organisations during Charles Taylor’s – former rebel leader and president – tenure of power. Taylor’s National Patriotic Forces of Liberia (NPFL) in 1989 had begun a revolt against Samuel K. Doe, which led to the collapse of Doe’s dictatorship and his execution in 1990.
Taylor himself stepped down in 2003, after 14 years of civil war brought international pressure to bear on him and rebels closed in on the capital Monrovia.
All party peace talks in August 2003 led to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in September 2003. The agreement created the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL), made up of representatives of the rebel movements, the former Taylor government and civil society. Gyude Bryant, a prominent member of Liberia's Episcopal Church, and founder member of the Liberia Action Party - which was highly critical of Charles Taylor and of the rebels - was chosen to lead it. The transitional government is to lead the country to elections scheduled for October 2005. The last executions in Liberia, 14, took place in 2000.