Ex convict ThankGod Ebhos
ThankGod Ebhos was freed under an order delivered by the Governor of Kaduna State, Ramalan Yero, based on his age.
The man was dragged to the gallows at Benin Prisons, and watched four fellow death-row inmates being hanged and had been told he was next in June 2013. He was saved because prison authorities realized that his death sentence by a military tribunal called for him to be shot by a firing squad, which the prison was not prepared for.
A court of the Economic Community of West African States in June ruled that Ebhos should be freed.Amnesty International said he was freed from prison on Friday on the orders of the governor of Kaduna state, where he had been held of prepared robbery.
“The release of ThankGod Ebhos brings great hope to the many hundreds who are languishing on death row across Nigeria,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa Director for research and advocacy.
“Nigeria must build on the positive step taken today, immediately halt plans to carry out any more executions and move towards abolishing the death penalty.”
Last year’s executions were the first in nearly eight years, breaching an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.
A public outcry seems to have stopped the hangings. About 1,039 people were on death row in Nigeria last year.
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