{"id":209625,"date":"2025-10-12T07:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-journey-towards-full-abolition-of-the-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:56:02","slug":"ghanas-journey-towards-full-abolition-of-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-journey-towards-full-abolition-of-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Journey Towards Full Abolition of the Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">As the world marks 10 October &#8211; World Day Against the Death Penalty, Ghana stands at a historic crossroad. Our nation has taken bold steps towards ending capital punishment, yet a few crucial measures remain to complete the journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">For decades, Amnesty International Ghana and our partners have fought tirelessly to end the death penalty. Advocacy began in earnest following the 2010 Constitutional Review Commission&#8217;s recommendation to abolish it entirely. Although constitutional reform stalled,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world marks 10 October &#8211; World Day Against the Death Penalty, Ghana stands at a historic crossroad. Our nation has taken bold steps towards ending capital punishment, yet a few crucial measures remain to complete the journey. For decades, Amnesty International Ghana and our partners have fought tirelessly to end the death penalty. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00560012:bdfcdddef08b51d5f9e15f56f6a7919b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[19547,258,256,6974,10170,4509,8226,7369,257,11125,254],"class_list":["post-209625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abolition","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-death","tag-full","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-journey","tag-news","tag-penalty","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00560012:bdfcdddef08b51d5f9e15f56f6a7919b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}