Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dominic Ayine, has announced that the government has accepted a recommendation to abolish the death penalty in Ghana, paving the way for persons convicted of offences that previously attracted capital punishment to serve life imprisonment instead. "The government has accepted the recommendations to abolish the death penalty. "The relevant provisions of Article 13 will be amended accordingly, and offences that previously attracted the death penalty will attract life imprisonment," he stated. The Attorney-General said the decision is based on the belief that capital punishment is inconsistent with Ghana’s constitutional commitment to protecting the right to life. The proposed reform forms part of a broader review of Ghana’s human rights framework under the Constitutional Review Committee’s recommendations.