S/Court Overrides Pardon For Mariam Sanda, Affirms Death Sentence
The Supreme Court has overridden the pardon granted by President Bola Tinubu to an Abuja-based house wife, Maryam Sanda, who was in 2020 sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, in a domestic dispute. President Tinubu had reduced Sanda’s sentence to 12 years imprisonment on compassionate ground. But in a judgment on Friday, the Supreme Court, in a split decision of four-to-one, affirmed the death sentence […]