Stakeholders to FG: Replace death sentence with life imprisonment

By Henry Ojelu

Stakeholders successful Nigeria’s justness assemblage person renewed calls for the abolition of decease penalty, urging the Federal Government to regenerate it with beingness imprisonment and follow restorative justness measures that uphold quality dignity.

The telephone was made during the commemoration of the 23rd World Day Against the Use of the Death Penalty, themed “Death Penalty Protects No One,” and the motorboat of The Inclusion Project (TIP) documentary titled “Justice Reimagined: Voices of Loss.”

The documentary, produced by TIP, features the experiences of victims of superior offences and challenges the content that the decease punishment deters crime. It argues alternatively that executions neither forestall unit nor present justness but hazard taking guiltless lives.

TIP Director, Mrs. Pamela Okoroigwe, said it was clip for Nigeria to determination distant from retribution toward a justness strategy grounded successful rehabilitation.

“For excessively long, the decease punishment has been justified successful the sanction of victims without consulting them. Many present cull it, not retired of sympathy for offenders, but due to the fact that sidesplitting successful effect to sidesplitting lone deepens injustice,” she stated.

Associate Professor of Law astatine the University of Lagos, Dr. Abiodun Odusote, noted that decades of enforcing the decease punishment successful Nigeria person not deterred crimes specified arsenic murder, kidnapping, and banditry. “Judges indispensable inactive pronounce decease sentences, but astir governors garbage to motion execution warrants, showing adjacent authorities discomfort with enforcing them,” helium observed, calling for an authoritative moratorium to let beingness presumption and rehabilitation instead.

Similarly, Convener of the Criminal Justice Network of Nigeria, Mr. Nathaniel Ngwu, said the documentary captures the symptom and disillusionment.

of victims who find nary closure successful executions.

“The decease punishment has done small to heal victims oregon trim violence. Nigeria should travel the examples of Malawi, Sierra Leone, and the UK, which abolished it without an summation successful crime,” helium said.

The stakeholders concluded that existent justness lies not successful vengeance, but successful reforms that guarantee just trials, forestall wrongful convictions, and code the basal causes of transgression done humane and restorative approaches.

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