Stop Crime, Not Lives - HURILAWS Press Statement in Commemoration of October 10 - World Day against the Death Penalty - For more than 15 years federal and state governments in Nigeria contrary to international law have continued to extend crimes to which the death penalty applies. The moment a crime assumes notoriety or begins to overwhelm law enforcement agents, governments’ response has been to impose the death penalty for such crime (s). When kidnapping became the trend in South-east and South-south Nigeria most affected state governments prescribed the death penalty. The federal government responded to the surge in terrorism in the North-east and North-west Nigeria by imposing the death penalty. There is even a clamour that the death penalty be made to apply to official corruption, vandalization of oil installations, and oil bunkering. yrn.me/6n9
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:09:25 +0000
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