00:00Amnesty International is urging for a constitutional amendment to completely abolish the death penalty from Ghana's legal framework.
00:09Despite progress in repealing certain laws, by the end of 2024, close to 200 individuals remained on their floor in the country.
00:17Here's our KADA correspondent, Justice Baidu.
00:19Six new persons were sentenced to death in 2024 alone, according to the new death sentencing and executions report by Amnesty International, with 182 existing death sentences remaining in Ghana.
00:37While the country has generally improved in some rights indicators relating to press freedom and the right to association, the report cast a bleak shadow on rights for persons within the LGBTQ community, for women and for girls.
00:56Despite the repeal of the death penalty in 2024, offenses like high treason are still subject to capital punishment.
01:05If you are going for an eye for an eye, we're going to have a country of blind people.
01:11Killing me for killing A doesn't bring A back.
01:15That is the moral stance, if you look at it.
01:20Once you kill me because I killed A, if that brings A back, that would have been a different situation.
01:27But it doesn't solve the problem.
01:29So do we lose the two or we correct or take the person through a certain process that can reform him or her?
01:40Executions and death sentencing reduced by around 10% globally, according to this new report.
