Order the killing of death row inmates now, Judge tells Nigerian governors

The Chief Judge of Delta State, Marshal Umukoro, has urged state governors to sign the death warrant of over 1,600 inmates on death sentence in order to decongest the prisons.

He said that recent statistics from the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, indicated that no fewer than 1,612 inmates are on death sentence in Nigeria prisons.
The chief judge said that signing the death warrant would reduce prison congestion, and served as deterrent to others.