Warning that a prisoner in Nigeria is in imminent danger, an independent United Nations expert is today urging a stop to his possible execution just days after the country broke its seven year moratorium on the death penalty and apparently executed four prisoners.
"These executions undermine previous trends towards abolishing, in law and practice, the death penalty in the country," UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, said in a statement.
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