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.
Executions were suspended in 1984, when current president Lansana Conte came to power in a bloodless coup unseating President Ahmed Sékou Touré. Touré had used the firing squad to get rid of many of his political opponents.
In 2001 the country resumed judicial executions, putting to death 8 people.
Five people, sentenced to death in 1995 for murder, were put to death on February 5, and three people sentenced to death for armed robbery, were shot on April 21, 2001.
Justice Minister, Abou Kamara, said the executions were the beginning of a campaign to combat lawlessness and he would be pitiless in enforcing the death penalty.
On December 20, 2012, Guinea abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.