Monday, 29 April 2019

Lagos State Pardons 14 Inmates, Reversed 20 Death Sentences!

Lagos State Government pardons fourteen inmates at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison in Lagos.




The inmates, having been imprisoned for more than 20-years, after due case-files examination, that showed they were fully reformed and ready for re-integration in to society, were granted Prerogative of Mercy. Twenty others on death-row were reversed to life imprisonment.

The development was followed a constitutional provision, which provides for the constitution of an Advisory Council and grants the Governor power to grant clemency to convicted persons on the Council's advice.




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