As Ms Maryam Sanda, last week, joined the over 2000 condemned prisoners on death row in various correctional service formations in Nigeria following the pronouncement of death sentence by hanging on her by an Abuja high court, the debate on the abolition of death sentence from the nation’s statute book came alive. In this piece, Ise-Oluwa Ige examines the case against Ms Sanda by the state, the position of the defence, the judgment of the court with particular attention to its ratio decidendi, the global polemics about the abolition or retention of death sentence and the argument of a school of thought in Nigeria that the Sanda’s case is a good instance to renew the on-going campaign for abolition of death sentence in Nigeria.
Background
Last week, a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Abuja pronounced a sentence of death by hanging on a widow, Ms Maryam Sanda.
That was after the trial judge in the case, Justice Yusuf Halilu found her guilty of a two-count charge of murder.
In the charge, the police had accused Sanda of stabbing her husband, Bilyamin Mohammed Bello, to death with kitchen knife |||READ MORE …
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