People just let their emotions run wild thus introducing all manner of theories into the equation. Let's stick to the issue. He robbed at gunpoint. Even if it was bread he stole there was a gun involved so the intent is there to use it barring any resistance.
The verdict of a death sentence is based on the discretion of the judge. In this case he/she decided to apply the law to the latter & since the death sentence is still legal the judge did nothing wrong. The best the accused can do is appeal the ruling at a higher court.

That Judge should be sentenced to life imprisonment.

I really don't understand how the "justice" system works in Nigeria. . .

A guy steals a car stereo while armed and gets death sentence WHEREAS the so called leaders steal votes/manipulate elections with the aid of armed trigger happy thugs/police men/soldiers and they go scot free. Niger Delta militants kidnapped oil workers/bombed installations and Aso Rock and they were granted amnesty WHEREAS MASSOB holds peaceful protests and countless members of the group are rotting in jails over trumped up charges. Boko Haram has wasted many innocent lives and at a point, the government intended negotiating with them using the "carrot and stick" approach. The likes of IBB,OBJ,Tinubu,Igbinedion and Abacha's family are walking free in the country and enjoying their stolen wealth.

What kind of legal system do we have in this geo-political joke called Nigeria?

Na wa ooo

Oga Justice please did the Mechanic steal and kill someone or only stole.?

Think well oooooooooooooh God is the greatest Judge, Remember that the World go round and round.

My dear Governnor,state Chief Judge,Commissioner of Justice and Elders of the Delta State please look into it,this execution should not be granted and signed.

Thanks,

Engr.Amos Omogege

cold:

People just let their emotions run wild thus introducing all manner of theories into the equation. Let's stick to the issue. He robbed at gunpoint. Even if it was bread he stole there was a gun involved so the intent is there to use it barring any resistance.
The verdict of a death sentence is based on the discretion of the judge. In this case he/she decided to apply the law to the latter & since the death sentence is still legal the judge did nothing wrong. The best the accused can do is appeal the ruling at a higher court.

AT THE BOLDED, SINCE THE LAW IS IN EXISTENCE HOW MANY POLITICIAN HAVE YOU HEARD THAT WAS SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT OR DEATH SENTENCE,ARE THEY NOT KILLING MANY WITH THUGS AND POLICE IN OTHER TO MANIPULATE? LOOK I AM NOT AGAINST THE LAW BUT I AM AGAINST EXCISING THE WEIGHT OF THE LAW ONLY ON THE POOR

tragic

Madness!

This was a serious topic at Wazobia yesterday. It is unfortunate that the poor should suffer in this country

it is evident that the guy does not have a lawyer to defend him or he was offered a free legal service which is the worst you can ever get.
The police will also cajole you to plead guilty.
There is little or nothing much the judge can do in this scenerio. He judges based on what is presented to him and the defence put before him. he can't rule outside that.

He Robbed at the gun point without fired a shot and all he got is a car stereo and he was caught. I think the sentence is too harsh. Illegal possession of firearm with intent to robbery is a long time jail offense. He spent 10yrs behind bar already and now to face death penalty. His lawyer should appeal the sentence, it suppose to be jail not death because no injuries or life lost in that operation.
Meanwhile if that should be uphold the likes of all the former and present government administrations members should be arrested and tried for the same offense, because they too they robbed the states and the nation with pistols in their pocket and made away with billions of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

kizito96:

This was a serious topic at Wazobia yesterday. It is unfortunate that the poor should suffer in this country

yes, when you cant get youself a good lawyer.
The law court work with priciples and evidence. You complain, that your governor stole our money, where you there when he stole it? and if yes, where is the evidence? ? if you take your governor to a court for looting without a witness with tangible evidence, the judge would refer you to a psychiatric,  cos they'll assume youre mad.
leave the lawyers to do their job.

This poor guy has been condemned based on witness statements alone. No forensic evidence, no pictures or video, no fingerprints. What if the witnesses were lying? What if it was a case of mistaken identity?
Since were are all equal under the law, if I was able to find 4 people to testify that GEJ robbed someone, would the courts be so quick to sentence him to death?

The Nigerian judicial system is an embarrassment.

Also, the death penalty has no place in a civilized society.

Armed robbery which is the crux of the matter is a capital offence so his death is in order. That is the letter. The spirit however says when your penal system is not proportionate to the crime the intensity of crime rises to meet the intensity of punishment. We sentenced robbers to death so they started violent robberies knowing that if caught they are gone. Reduce the violent punishments and violent crimes will reduce.

Now, we cannot blame the judiciary for looters getting too light sentences or plea bargains. That is the responsibility of the legislature who make laws and the government that prosecutes. For instance a judge will walk past a crime scene like any other citizen. If the police and public prosecutor doesn't act nothing happens.

In Nigeria jail time goes for gays and lesbians by the legislature. If a judge is gayfully engaged or employed he will do time. So if we want a bigger hammer on graft don't go to court, neither go to the police or EFCC (as we often do), rather go to your rep. and ask him to raise the issue in the house of lawmakers. Or better still through a mass protest the type we saw and misused a couple of weeks ago. Yes, instead of demanding better laws against corruption, better legal tools for law enforcement, we were demanding cheaper gas. Talk of taking panadol for cancer and we come here to complain.

In Nigeria only injustice is common and that shows the uselessness of this nation, this nation is a very disgrace to Humanity, and life, has no value ere, imagine the currupt leader. stashing away billions, never get to jail, or even if they get they live in mansion jails, why a poor man who is hungry , get life, sentence, shame to Nigeria

which means.

Buhari, Ibb, Atiku, etc deserve to die by hanging .

Is d judge high on weed or ogogoro? A judge is meant to deliver judgment only within d jurisdiction of d law. If a boko haram member can be given just 3yrs in prison, then dis is nt justice. D judge should be duly dealt with, his action is an embarrasment to d judiciary!

So easy sentencing a mechanic for stealing a car stereo to death by hanging

But People Stealing Billions With A 'Nuclear-Bomb-Of-Lies/Corruption' Gets only 6months in an hospital tha seems like a 5 Star Hotel!!!!

Niaja u are so cursed!!

Punishing armed robbery with death removes the incentive for the robbers to avoid killing. Instead, it encourages them to do everything possible to avoid getting caught leading to more violence and more deaths. It is a thoroughly stup1d policy. I bet that if this guy had just shot everybody present, he'd be sitting in his house watching home video right now.

In the US, armed robbers go out of their way not to kill people so as to avoid a murder charge. Some have even been known to rob with empty guns despite bullets being widely available and cheap. If th gun wasn't loaded, your lawyer can argue that it's not actually armed robbery and get you a much lighter sentence.

When you pass senseless laws based on sentiment rather than rationality, it leads to unintended consequences.

The death penalty has no place in civilized society.

funshint:

Is d judge high on weed or ogogoro? A judge is meant to deliver judgment only within d jurisdiction of d law. If a boko haram member can be given just 3yrs in prison, then dis is nt justice. D judge should be duly dealt with, his action is an embarrasment to d judiciary!

gentlegg:

That Judge should be sentenced to life imprisonment.

The judge considers the Law. Section 402 Criminal Code and 1 Robbery and Firearms Act IS THE LAW!!

Do we have the whole story?

Shots fired?

Live ammo present?

What does the law say? Death penalty for armed robbery?

So easy sentencing a mechanic for stealing a car stereo to death by hanging

But People Stealing Billions With A 'Nuclear-Bomb-Of-Lies/Corruption' Gets only 6months in an hospital tha seems like a 5 Star Hotel!!!!

Niaja u are so cursed!!

Pathetic, our reasoning.

Punishing armed robbery with death removes the incentive for the robbers to avoid killing. Instead, it encourages them to do everything possible to avoid getting caught leading to more violence and more deaths. It is a thoroughly stup1d policy. I bet that if this guy had just shot everybody present, he'd be sitting in his house watching home video right now. In the US, armed robbers go out of their way not to kill people so as to avoid a murder charge. Some have even been known to rob with empty guns despite bullets being widely available and cheap. If th gun wasn't loaded, your lawyer can argue that it's not actually armed robbery and get you a much lighter sentence. When you pass senseless laws based on sentiment rather than rationality, it leads to unintended consequences.

Sensible reasoning

The death penalty has no place in civilized society

Some people truly deserve the death sentence, but not for some bloodless stealing or armed robbery. . . .but do we have the whole story?

This is purely injustice @ its higest order! God pls we nid ur miracle on saving d life of the mechanic in Jesus' Name Amen

@efisher, i disagree about your version of armed robbers asking victims to lie down on the road for bus to climb over them, if it'll interest you, d true version was that, though there was robbery amd the robbers told victims to lie down, the driver of the bus that ran over them didnt see the victims on the floor at night, he even went ahead to testify on national t.v, so let's get that straight. As regards this sentencing, me think it's too harsh, the judge must have been sentimental or we might just not know of other charges associated with this crime that was brought against the suspect.

The sentence of death applies under the Criminal Code Act (Section 402 (2)(b) to precise) and Roberry and Firearms Act.

Section 402 CCA:

402.   (1) Any person who commits the offence of robbery shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for not

          (2) If-

                           (a) any offender mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is armed with any firearms or any offensive weapon or any obnoxious or chemical materials or is in company with 
                               any person so armed; or

                          (b)  at or immediately before or immediately after the time of robbery, the said offender wounds any person, the offender shall upon conviction be sentenced to death.

Section 1 RFA states:

(1) Any person who commits the offence of robbery shall upon trial and conviction under this Act, be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than twenty-one years.

(2) If

           (a) any offender mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) of this section is armed with any firearms or any offensive weapon or is in company with any person so armed; or

           (b) at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the robbery the said offender wounds or uses any personal violence to any person, the offender shall be liable upon
                conviction under this Act to be sentenced to death.

The fact that he was sentenced to death means he probably wounded someone in the process.

A mental examination needs to be carried out on that judge who gave that judgement.

This is rather harsh.
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wow, a Nigerian life is worth as much as a car stereo.

Because of stereo?? While Billions are still stealing billions and sponsoring their wives and kids abroad with no one to bring them to book,

Quote 4rm:Ninja_I_dey hail

Beaf you fall my hand this time.i am not in support of arm robbery but if boko haram who kill in dozen could get only 3years jail term why should this poor guy who steal a common car stereo which you can see that it is pure laziness and poverty that lead him into that is getting death sentence by hanging,well i am sure beaf you will go and thought a bit more over this issue and re post a fair comment over this issue.

if i may ask what about our leaders sorry our rulers because we never have a leader in this country,they steal us in a broad day light without prosecution even obasanjo steal otta farm from us without question from anybody up till date Ibb sani abbacha etc. abeg tell the magistrate to render his justice with mercy. here is not iraq. in fact i don't know why Nigeria law is effective and strict only on the poor masses. rubbish

U have just spoken my mind,dis country is sick,xpercially our judicial system.