Death Penalty
Man sentenced to death For Murder and Kidnapping
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt last week convicted and sentenced a man to death by hanging...
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Group Raises Concern Over Suspicious Death In Anambra Police Custody
The Anambra State Police Stakeholders Partnership Forum (PSPF) has again raised serious concerns about the controversy surrounding the death of...
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Court Sentences Lagos Vulcanizer To Death By Hanging For Robbing Nurse Of N57,000
An Ikeja Special Offences Court presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada sentenced a 32-year-old vulcaniser, Chidozie Onyinchiz to death by...
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Court sentences four to death by hanging in Osun
On Monday, the Osogbo Division of Osun High Court sentenced four persons to death by hanging for murder and other...
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Iran Executes Two More Men In Cases Linked To Ongoing Protests
Two men have been hanged in Iran after being convicted of killing a member of the paramilitary Basij force during...
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Death Penalty: Abduljabbar’s Followers Vows To Appeal Sentence
The followers of convicted Kano cleric, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara said they would appeal the judgment of a Kano Shari’ah...
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3,167 Inmates On Death Row, 52,178 Awaiting Trial In Nigerian Prisons
There are 3,167 inmates on death row, spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Mr. Umar Abubakar said in Abuja on...
Read moreBreaking: Kano Court Sentences Islamic Cleric To Death For Blasphemy
A Kano Upper Shariah Court has on Thursday sentenced the embattled Islamic cleric Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara to death by hanging...
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Two Undergraduates Sentenced To Death For Murder
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin and presided over by Justice Ibrahim Yusuf on Tuesday sentenced two students,...
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LEDAP, HURILAWS CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN NIGERIA.
As the world marks the World Day Against the Use of the Death Penalty, some notable human rights organizations on...
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