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NIGERIA<br />

‘WAITING FOR THE HANGMAN’<br />

61<br />

APPENDIX 4: DEATH ROW IN NIGERIA<br />

DEATH ROW PRISONERS AND LIFERS IN NIGERIA, 2008<br />

STATE<br />

IMPRISONED<br />

MALE<br />

DEATH ROW<br />

FEMALE<br />

DEATH ROW<br />

MALE<br />

LIFERS<br />

FEMALE<br />

LIFERS<br />

Abia 9<br />

Akwa Ibom 1 33 1<br />

Anambra 1<br />

Bauchi 2 2<br />

Benue 1 3<br />

Borno 8<br />

Cross River 5 9 1<br />

Delta 40 14<br />

Ebonyi 1<br />

Edo 46 2 8<br />

Enugu 62 1 15<br />

Gombe 1<br />

Imo 1 10<br />

Jigawa 3<br />

Kaduna 116 1 36<br />

Kano 4 3<br />

Katsina 4 9<br />

Kwara 5 1<br />

Lagos 85 5 22 1<br />

Ogun 115 13<br />

Ondo 1<br />

Osun 2 1<br />

Oyo 4<br />

Plateau 110 1 16<br />

Rivers 115 1 14<br />

Taraba 12<br />

Yobe 2<br />

TOTAL 725 11 240 3<br />

Source: Nigeria Prison Service, February 2008<br />

Index: AFR 44/020/2008 <strong>Amnesty</strong> <strong>International</strong> October 2008

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