Nigeria: Amnesty urges Nigeria to stop capital punishment

(SomaliNet) Saying Nigeria’s legal system is so faulty that innocent people may have been executed Amnesty International is calling on Nigeria to stop capital punishment..

Amnesty International, in a bulky report, lists scores of abuses in Nigeria. These include confessions extracted under torture from people sentenced to death, appeals against death sentences prolonged for more than 20 years, and even death sentences for children.

However, it is unclear how many executions have been carried out in Nigeria because the country\'s authorities have made no announcements about the subject. However, Amnesty believes that at least seven people were executed in secret in 2006.-RNW