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Nigeria: EU, Rights Group Want Death Penalty Abolished
Daily Trust, 1 December 2014
Head of Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michel Arrion, has said that death penalty for capital crimes is not the solution to criminality in the society. Read more »
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Nigeria: Groups Demand Abolition of Capital Punishment
Guardian, 29 November 2014
THE Community of Sant'Egidio, Nigeria, and the European Union yesterday in Lagos demanded the abolition of death penalty, lynching and extra-judicial killings. Read more »
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Nigeria: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for 14-Year-Old Girl Accused of Murdering Husband
Vanguard, 30 October 2014
Nigerian prosecutors said on Thursday they may seek the death penalty against a 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband by putting rat poison in his food. Read more »
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Nigeria: Reprieve for Death Row Inmates in Kaduna
Guardian, 20 October 2014
IN an unprecedented turn of events, reprieve has eventually come the way of Thankgod Ebhos and Sunday Eze Onyeabor, two death row inmates formerly in Benin prison, following the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria Asked to Remove Death Penalty From Statute Books
This Day, 11 October 2014
As the world celebrates the day against death penalty, Swiss President Didier Burhalter, together with 11 Foreign Ministers from around the world yesterday called on Nigeria and… Read more »
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Nigeria: No to Death Penalty for Our Soldiers
Premium Times, 25 September 2014
On September 16 2014, a court martial in Abuja sentenced to death by firing squad 12 soldiers of the 7th Division of the Nigerian army in Maiduguri, Borno State, for mutiny. It… Read more »
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Nigeria: Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
This Day, 18 March 2014
The Constitution provides that 'every person has a right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Lawyers Want Death Penalty Moratorium Enforced
Daily Trust, 31 January 2014
The Avocats Sans Frontieres France (ASFF) also known as Lawyers Without Borders and other judicial stakeholders are pushing for the Federal Government's full compliance of the… Read more »