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Kill Them Now – Judge Urges Governors To Sign Death Warrants Of Death Bound Inmates

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SAN FRANCISCO, February 01, (THEWILL) – The Chief Judge of Delta State, Marshal Umukoro, has urged state governors to sign the death warrant of over 1,600 inmates on death sentence in order to decongest the prisons.

Umukoro, speaking in Ibadan during the 2017 Aquinas’ Day colloquium of Dominican Institute at the lecture titled ‘The Judiciary and Criminal Justice System: Odds and Ends,’ that statistics from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) indicated that no fewer than 1,612 inmates are on death sentence in Nigeria prisons which he described as a burden on the prisons.

He declared that signing the death warrant would reduce prison congestion, and served as deterrent to others as he also called for synergy between the police, prisons and the courts in order to boost justice administration.

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“Some criminal cases have been hanging without progress for over a year in some courts due to transfer of Investigative Police Officer (IPO) or as a result of IPO going on short course,” he said.

“Some courts too do not cooperate with the police and the prison to expeditiously dispose of criminal cases.

“This does not only lead to unnecessary waste of time, but also greatly affects the disposition of the accused person and the witnesses who look forward to seeing the end of the case.”

Although, local and international organisations such as Amnesty international have repeatedly called for the abolition of the death penalty, it is however still legal in Nigeria where it can used to punish people convicted of crimes like murder and armed robbery.

However, before executions can be carried out, the death sentence must be approved by the state governor where the judgement was issued but some state governors use their prerogative to commute the death sentences to prison terms.

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