₦airaland Forum

Ishilove:
I think there should be exceptions in cases of banditry, murders and kidnapping.

Human rights activists have been campaigning for the abolition lf the death penalty for a long time. It was a big debate in Nigeria in the 1990s and 2000s. All these foreign NGOs like Amnesty International want the death penalty to be scrapped and for countries that refuse to scrap it to be sanctioned.

They say that innocent people could be executed and that the punishment is cruel.

Many countries have abolished the death penalty in response to the pressure.

I believe that that pressure might have affected some governors in the 2000s, but Governor Oshiomhole said that he would sign the death warrants as long as death penalty was still legal in Nigeria.

On the other hand, many countries (incliding Nigeria) have laws that make cruel and inhuman punishment illegal and human rights activists argue that leaving someone on death row for a long time (in a situation where they know that they will be executed but don't know the exact day) is cruel and inhuman punishment. They have tried to get people on death row freed for this reason.