Action By Christians Against Torture (ACAT Ghana) has partner the Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG) to appeal for government intervention to grant amnesty to Ghanaian prisoners on death row.

As Ghana joined the world to mark the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty which falls on Monday October 10, 2022, two (2) vibrant human rights advocacy groups in Ghana have joined forces to strongly advocate for the presidential pardon towards Ghanaian prisoners on the death row.

ACAT Ghana and the Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG) both vibrant rights groups are calling on the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to grant Amnesty to all prisoners on death row to life imprisonment sentences within the Nsawam prison in Ghana.

The groups in a press statement on Monday October 10, signed by Joseph Wemakor, the Executive Director of Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG) and ACAT Ghana’s Secretary, Florence Venunye Ayivor-Viera and copied to the media also pleaded with the President to immediately intervene in the case of a 75-year-old, John Narh Terkpe, who spent 20 years on death row, 26 years on life sentence while currently continuing his term in the Nsawam Prison.

“On this 20th celebration with the theme: “Death penalty: a road paved with torture”, ACAT Ghana and HRRG appeals to the President, His Excellency, Nana Akuffo-Addo to grant Amnesty to all prisoners on death row to life sentences”, the statement partly reads.

ACAT Ghana and HRRG are equally demanding from government total abolition of death penalty in Ghana.

The World Day Against Death Penalty is a day set aside annually and globally on October 10 to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and to raise awareness of the conditions and circumstances which affect prisoners with death sentences.

The day was first organized by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2003.

Read the full statement below :

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