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A Kano High Court on Friday sentenced a 31-year-old-man, Isma’il Umar to death by hanging for stabbing his friend to death over a misunderstanding.
Delivering judgment, Justice Nura Sagir said that from evidences before the court, the prosecutor proved its case of culpable homicide against the accused.
According to him, the evidences presented before the court with the exhibits tendered by the prosecution as well as the defence linked the accused to the offence, punishable by death.
He, therefore, sentenced the accused to death by hanging.
The judge, however, recommended that the Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy could look into the matter and if possible to commute the jail term to 35 years imprisonment.
He said this was because of the plea made by the accused counsel that the accused had been in detention for 11 years, and that the convict was now an adult to realise the consequences of his action.
Delivering judgment, Justice Nura Sagir said that from evidences before the court, the prosecutor proved its case of culpable homicide against the accused.
According to him, the evidences presented before the court with the exhibits tendered by the prosecution as well as the defence linked the accused to the offence, punishable by death.
He, therefore, sentenced the accused to death by hanging.
The judge, however, recommended that the Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy could look into the matter and if possible to commute the jail term to 35 years imprisonment.
He said this was because of the plea made by the accused counsel that the accused had been in detention for 11 years, and that the convict was now an adult to realise the consequences of his action.