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Ghana last executed a criminal in 1993. The method of execution is by firing squad. [1] It is considered "abolitionist in practice." [2] Capital punishment was a mandatory sentence for certain ordinary criminal offenses until 2023. [3] Seven new death sentences were handed down in 2021, while 165 people were on death row in Ghana at the end of ...
Ghana's parliament on Tuesday voted to abolish the death penalty, making the country the latest of several African nations that have moved to repeal capital punishment in recent years. No one has ...
24 soldiers (23 men, 1 woman) high treason: public firing squad: D Somalia: 17 August 2024 [37] ten unnamed Al-Shabaab terrorists terrorism: public firing squad: D Somaliland: 1 November 2023 [38] five unnamed convicts murder: firing squad: A South Africa: 14 November 1989 [4] Solomon Ngobeni: murder: hanging: D South Sudan: 29 January 2025 [39 ...
Firing squad, hanging. Death penalty for high treason. In 2023, Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty for all other crimes. [91] The repeal of the death penalty is not retroactive; at least one death sentence was handed down after abolition for a crime that occurred before the repeal went into effect. [92] Guinea: 2001 [93] 2017
The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.
A fan of one of Ghana's biggest football teams, Asante Kotoko, has died after being stabbed to death at a match against their neighbours Nsoatreman. Francis Yaw Frimpong, better known as Pooley ...
On 21 July 2023, a death warrant was issued for Saridewi, scheduling her to hang a week later on 28 July 2023. Just two days before Saridewi's family received her execution notice, the family of a 56-year-old Singaporean drug trafficker Mohd Aziz bin Hussain was also notified that he would be put to death on 26 July 2023 (two days before Saridewi).
On 31 May 2015, previously convicted murderer Russell Anthony Oliver, 46, attacked John York in his cell at high-security HMP Long Lartin. York, who was jailed for life in 2013 for beating a man to death, died from head injuries. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave handed Oliver a whole-life sentence at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday 24 March 2016. Co ...