#OBSCURELEGALFACTS
In Nigeria, where a prison inmate sentenced to death has exhausted all appellate remedies and a period of 10 years has elapsed without the execution of the sentence, the Chief Judge of the State may commute the sentence of death to life imprisonment.
See section 12 (2)(c) of the Police Act.
Arome Abu is the Managing Partner of TCLP.
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