Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has asked
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State to commute the death penalty passed on
death row inmates in the state to life imprisonment instead of executing them.
Those on death row upon the judgment of the court of Lagos
State included the General-Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly,
Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Rev. King.
Falana argued in his letter dated April 19, 2017, and
addressed to Governor Ambode that the planned execution of death row inmates in
the state would violate a subsisting judgment delivered in 2012 by the High
Court of Lagos State which ruled that it was illegal and unconstitutional to
execute the condemned inmates.
He reminded the governor that the judgment of the court of
the state had held that to hang or subject the death row inmates to firing
squad would lead to the violation of their fundamental right to freedom from
torture guaranteed by the Constitution.
The judgment was said to have been delivered by Justice
Mufutau Olokooba of the Lagos State High Court on June 29, 2012.
The Lagos lawyer advised the state government to explore the
only available option of commuting the death penalty passed on the inmates to
life imprisonment.
Source:Punchng.
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