Mob justice is when a person suspected to be a criminal is beaten by a group of people or crowd with clubs, stones, machetes, or anything they can lay their hands on.
In some cases the alleged criminal dies in the process due to excessive beating or they are set on fire using old car tires and fuel.
[citation needed] In Ghana, it is not only alleged criminals that sometimes face mob justice; people suspected to be witches, wizards, adulterers and homosexuals sometimes find themselves in such situations.
[citation needed] Also, 79.5% strongly agree to mob justice serving as a deterrent to other criminals.
Article 13 states that “No person shall be deprived of his life intentionally except in the exercise of the execution of a sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence under the laws of Ghana of which he has been convicted”.