Ghana is the 29th African country to abolish the death penalty, although you can still be executed for high treason. Despite not having executed anyone for 30 years, it has 176 people on death row. Their sentences are expected to be commuted to life. In the past five years, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Zambia have abolished the death penalty. Of the 25 African countries that still have capital punishment on their law books, 19 have not executed anyone in the past decade. At least 35 people were put to death in Egypt, South Sudan and Somalia last year.