Plea for amnesty:Two Rights Advocacy groups seek pardon for prisoners on death row
As the world marks amnesty day, two csos are jointly seeking the amnesty for prisoners on death row.
Prosper Kwaku Selassy Agbitor 
Action By Christians Against Torture (ACAT Ghana) partners with the Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG) to appeal for the government's 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 Ghanaian human rights advocacy groups have joined forces to strongly advocate for the presidential pardon of 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 in imprisonment sentences held at the Nsawam prison, Ghana.
The groups, in a joint press statement signed by Joseph Wemakor, the Executive Director of Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), and ACAT Ghana's Secretary, Florence Venunye Ayivor-Viera on Monday Monday night, October 10, 2022, to impress upon the President to immediately intervene in the case of a 75-year-old, John Narh Terkpe, who spent 20 years on passing row, 26 years on life sentence currently continuing his term in the Nsawam Prison.
Their joint call was occasioned by Ghana's joining the world to mark the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty which falls on Monday, October 10, 2022. "On this 20th celebration with the theme: “Death penalty: a road paved with torture”, ACAT Ghana and HRRG appeal to the President, His Excellency, Nana Akuffo-Addo to grant Amnesty to all prisoners on death row to life sentences", the statement partly reads.
Additionally, ACAT Ghana and HRRG are demanding the total abolition of the death penalty in Ghana's jurisprudence. World Day Against Death Penalty is a day set aside to globally advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and to raise awareness of the conditions and circumstances which affect prisoners. The day was first organized by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2003. Read the full statement below :
