Human rights advocates, legal practitioners, and international partners have urged the Federal government to end the death penalty, as over 3,500 inmates remain on death row.
The stakeholders made the call during an event marking the 2025 International Day Against the Death Penalty in Abuja, co-organised by the German Embassy, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) France, and the Australian High Commission.
ASF France marked the occasion celebrated every October 10, with the screening of the movie ‘Just Mercy’, a true-life story following Bryan Stevenson, a young Black lawyer and Harvard graduate who moves to Alabama to defend people wrongly convicted or too poor
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