All that you need to know about death sentence in Nigeria

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is killed by the state as a punishment for a crime such as murder, rape, terrorism-related, mutiny, homosexuality, incest and so on. It may be by shooting, stoning, hanging or lethal injection. The sentence that someone is punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.

Nigeria ranked after China in number of death sentences

Since the transition to democracy, executions have become rare; no executions took place between 2006 and 2013 when four prisoners on death row were hanged

More than a thousand prisoners were awaiting execution at the time.

These were the last execution to date in Nigeria.

When a judge gives such judgment(death sentence), the state Governor of that state would be required to sign before the execution, but they usually develop cold feet. So some stay as long as the refusal to sign. That is one of the reasons for congested prison in Nigeria. In this case, is the FCT in which the minister is the governor same thing will still happen. she will stay in prison as if it is a life sentence. Until one day he/she may be lucky to get state pardon.

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