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64<br />
NIGERIA<br />
‘WAITING FOR THE HANGMAN’<br />
DEATH SENTENCES BY YEAR<br />
YEAR<br />
SENTENCE<br />
TOTAL MEN WOMEN<br />
JUVENILE<br />
OFFENDERS<br />
ROBBERY<br />
ARMED<br />
ROBBERY<br />
2008* 11 11 1 1 4 6<br />
2007 56 55 1 3 2 20 33<br />
2006 75 74 1 2 1 26 47<br />
2005 102 99 3 5 2 41 56<br />
2004 47 46 1 3 10 14 22<br />
2003 39 39 5 6 15 17<br />
2002 38 37 1 5 3 16 18<br />
2001 17 17 1 5 13<br />
2000 18 18 2 1 4 13<br />
1999 41 41 2 8 27 6<br />
before 1999 135 132 3 10 14 43 78<br />
unknown 157 156 1 1 10 41 40<br />
MURDER<br />
* up to April 2008; not all prisons are included.<br />
Source: <strong>Amnesty</strong> <strong>International</strong> and LEDAP research 2007-2008<br />
APPENDIX 6: GLOBAL DEATH PENALTY TRENDS<br />
More than two thirds of <strong>the</strong> countries in <strong>the</strong> world have now abolished <strong>the</strong> death penalty in law<br />
or practice. The numbers are as follows:<br />
Abolitionist for all crimes: 91<br />
Abolitionist for ordinary crimes only: 11<br />
Abolitionist in practice: 35<br />
Total abolitionist in law or practice: 137<br />
Retentionist: 60<br />
ABOLITIONIST FOR ALL CRIMES<br />
Countries whose laws do not provide for <strong>the</strong> death penalty for any crime:<br />
Albania, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bhutan,<br />
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cook Islands,<br />
Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican<br />
Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea-Bissau,<br />
<strong>Amnesty</strong> <strong>International</strong> October 2008 Index: AFR 44/020/2008
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