{"id":5987,"date":"2024-01-30T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:03:39","slug":"three-soldiers-among-six-sentenced-to-death-for-coup-plot-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2024\/01\/30\/three-soldiers-among-six-sentenced-to-death-for-coup-plot-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Three soldiers among six sentenced to death for coup plot in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link To Article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ghana-coup-death-penalty-treason-8dc63802ffe0cbf72195e1b97881e0ce<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ghana, their court system has sentenced 6 people to the death penalty after finding them guilty in 2019 for plotting a coup against their government. What is interesting is that this is the first conviction of treason in Ghana in over several decades. It would also be the first time since the early 1990\u2019s, they carried out an execution. The result and consequence for being guilty could still be changed as Ghanaian lawmakers have replaced death penalty felonies with life imprisonment over the past year. Amnesty International, an NGO focused on human rights, and Ghana\u2019s director in this organization are completely against the death penalty saying the consequence is to be abolished and they have been fighting against the death penalty for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can see this story having either a positive or negative affect, nonetheless there will be one. As Ghana is a more stable democratic country in Africa, a choice like this could reinforce the message that they are never going to change. This is great because it could help lead the continent out of a shatterbelt zone or become a stronger unified region that impacts the whole world globally whether it be through trade with their natural resources or other options. This belief would be seen from a liberal perspective as the democratic nature of the country and values of free trade (commercial peace theory) would prove to succeed. On the contrary, this could be negative and lead to other potential coups. In my opinion, similar to a classical realist approach, people are aggressive for self interests. No matter the decision made by the Ghanaian government, there will always be coups fighting for power or rebellions made for their own goals meaning that sub saharan Africa would remain a shatterbelt region with no sign of change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way this article relates to what we have learned in class is the presence of an NGO. An NGO is a non governmental organization who operates separately from states in order to solve\/help certain political issues around the world. An example in this article is Amnesty International. They are the organization present in this article and are fighting against the result or any future results of the death penalty as it does violate human rights in their eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link To Article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ghana-coup-death-penalty-treason-8dc63802ffe0cbf72195e1b97881e0ce  In Ghana, their court system has sentenced 6 people to the death penalty after finding them guilty in 2019 for plotting a coup against their government. What is interesting is that this is the first conviction of treason in Ghana in over several decades. It would also be the first time since the early 1990\u2019s, they… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}