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62<br />
NIGERIA<br />
‘WAITING FOR THE HANGMAN’<br />
DEATH ROW PRISONERS IN NIGERIA, BY STATE<br />
STATE WHERE<br />
CONVICTION<br />
TOOK PLACE<br />
TOTAL<br />
CONVICTS<br />
MEN<br />
WOMEN<br />
JUVENILE<br />
OFFENDERS<br />
NUMBER<br />
Source: <strong>Amnesty</strong> <strong>International</strong> and LEDAP research 2007-2008<br />
HELD FOR MORE<br />
THAN<br />
10 YEARS<br />
LONGEST ON<br />
DEATH ROW<br />
(YEARS)<br />
Abia 30 27 3 12 16 87<br />
Adamawa 11 10 1 1 n/a 8 53<br />
Akwa Ibom 30 30 1 12 18 69<br />
Anambra 10 9 1 3 14 65<br />
Bauchi<br />
Bayelsa 3 3 1 0 3 23<br />
Benue 35 35 1 2 10 76<br />
Borno 35 35 2 7 18 82<br />
Cross River 7 7 2 12 43<br />
Delta 17 17 3 10 12 56<br />
Ebonyi 8 8 1 12 n/a<br />
Edo 39 37 2 4 15 24 76<br />
Ekiti 26 26 0 9 n/a<br />
Enugu 11 11 1 2 12 50<br />
Gombe<br />
Imo 56 55 1 3 7 13 90<br />
Jigawa 29 29 5 1 10 60<br />
Kaduna 15 15 4 14 62<br />
Kano 11 10 1 0 5 65<br />
Katsina 34 34 2 2 11 61<br />
Kawara<br />
Kebbi 17 17 2 1 9 71<br />
Kogi 22 22 4 4 14 61<br />
Lagos 37 37 5 8 24 62<br />
Nasarawa<br />
Niger 4 4 0 3 52<br />
Ogun 52 52 5 10 n/a<br />
Ondo 28 28 1 1 74<br />
Osun 5 5 0 9 n/a<br />
Oyo 49 49 15 16 55<br />
Plateau 10 10 1 10 38<br />
Rivers 11 9 2 3 4 13 47<br />
Sokoto 2 2 1 1 4 71<br />
Taraba 2 2 n/a n/a 45<br />
Yobe 11 11 2 16 55<br />
Zamfara 13 13 1 6 10 61<br />
Unknown 66 66 2<br />
TOTAL 736 725 11 40 130<br />
OLDEST ON<br />
DEATH ROW<br />
<strong>Amnesty</strong> <strong>International</strong> October 2008 Index: AFR 44/020/2008
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