Nigeria has 82 women sitting on death row right now, and that puts it near the top for female prisoners facing execution in sub-Saharan Africa. Angela Uzoma-Iwuchukwu from ASF France dropped this info at a training session in Abuja, saying the justice system treats these women like garbage, from arrest all the way through sentencing. Most of them survived domestic violence and ended up killing someone in self-defense, but courts refuse to see them as victims.
Money plays a huge role since poor defendants can't hire decent lawyers, and the quality of your legal team basically decides if you live or die. One woman in Katsina State almost got stoned to death for getting pregnant while unmarried, but ASF France got the appeals court to toss the sentence. Dr. Chioma Kanu pointed out that some death row inmates confessed under torture and never committed any crimes, which means innocent people get executed while the guilty walk free.
Money plays a huge role since poor defendants can't hire decent lawyers, and the quality of your legal team basically decides if you live or die. One woman in Katsina State almost got stoned to death for getting pregnant while unmarried, but ASF France got the appeals court to toss the sentence. Dr. Chioma Kanu pointed out that some death row inmates confessed under torture and never committed any crimes, which means innocent people get executed while the guilty walk free.
