European Court of Human Rights (hereafter Strasbourg Court) conclude that exposure to the death penalty is contrary to the.Although the death penalty remains in GhanaвЂ™s statutes, it has been literally dormant over the years.Speaking at the launch of the Global Death Penalty Report, the Director of Amnesty International Ghana, Robert Akoto Amoafo, proposed alternatives to the death penalty.вЂњGhana has not executed anybody in the last ten years and it is believed to have established a practice of not carrying out executions. Although no official moratorium executions are in place, Ghana has not carried out an execution since 1993. The death penalty, both in the U.S. And around the world, is discriminatory and is used disproportionately against the poor, minorities and members of racial, ethnic and religious communities.

Seven of which are in West Africa.вЂќвЂњThis is clear evidence that all countries in ECOWAS have abolished the death penalty in one way or another. The time is right for Ghana to join the league of abolitionist countries in Africa and the world by abolishing the death penalty for all crimes. Let us all remember that the death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights and simply does not deter crime in any way.вЂќEven though Ghana has not recorded any execution by death penalty since 1993, the number of death sentences has increased from nine in 2014 to 18 in 2015.As of December 31, 2018, there were 172 people, including three women, on the death row in Ghana.Amnesty International, Ghana has described the situation as worrying and wants the state to take appropriate steps to expunge the death sentence through a referendum.By: Marian Ansah| citinewsroom. That this House notes the publishing of Amnesty Internationals annual review on the death penalty celebrates the decline in death sentences recorded in.Amnesty International Ghana has called on President Akufo-Addo, the Attorney General and other stakeholders to immediately take steps to abolish the death penalty.Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual or the method used by the state to carry out the execution.

The group said it could not put a specific figure on the number of people sentenced to death there because the issue of executions in China is shrouded in secrecy.Other top executioners identified by Amnesty included Iran, which executed at least 252 people in 2010, North Korea, with at least 60 executions, and Yemen, with at least 53 executions.The rights group warned that those numbers could be far higher.For example, it said it had credible reports of more than 300 additional executions in Iran. China biggest executionerChina retained the title of the world's biggest executioner, killing what Amnesty estimated were thousands of convicts. Amnesty noted that the 110 death sentences handed down in the United States in 2010 represent only about a third of the number handed down in the mid-1990s.Globally, Amnesty reported that at least 527 executions were carried out in 2010, although that figure only represents a fraction of the death sentences thought to have been imposed worldwide.

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