Supreme Court affirms Maryam Sanda's death sentence - The Nation Newspaper
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
51% : "When an appeal against death sentence is pending, it is better and safer to delay granting amnesty or pardon to the convicted person.46% : Justice Adumein added: "By Section 233(2)(d) of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to the exclusion of any other court, to hear and determine appeal from the Court of Appeal where, as in this case, a decision of a death sentence was affirmed.
45% : In a judgment a on Friday, the Supreme Court, in a split decision of four-to-one, affirmed the death sentence handed Sanda by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); in a judgment given on January 27, 2020, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal in a judgment handed out on December 4, 2020, which decision Sanda appeal to the Supreme Court.
42% : "I do not think that this jurisdiction can be affected by the grant of pardon by the Executive when an appeal against the death sentence is still pending in the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
40% : "I am of the view that by Section 221(2) of the Act, it cannot be the honest intention of the law makers that death penalty cannot and must not recorded against a nursing mother, validly tried and convicted for serious crimes such as armed robbery, culpable homicide and murder.
39% : " The judge equally faulted the appellant's argument that, in view of the provision of Section 221 of the Child Right Act 2003, the Court of Appeal was wrong to have affirmed the death sentence handed to the appellant by the trial court.
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