Governor Adams Oshiomhole Promises To Sign More Death Warrants

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has said he would continue to sign the death warrants of convicts who killed their victims.
According to the Comrade Governor:

“There are seven convicts whose cases are being reviewed. I will sign the death warrant of any of them, especially kidnappers, found to have killed any of their victims.

“I believe that those who kill by the sword should also die by the sword.’’

Mr. Oshiomhole said that signing convicts’ death warrants was a signal to other criminals that the State was a wrong place for criminal activities.
He said that the non-execution of convicted criminals in the last 15 to 20 years had not led to reduction in criminality in the state.
And that Edo state government was proposing to the state legislature that if kidnappers released their victims unharmed and without raping them, such kidnappers should be given life imprisonment.
The governor also said that if the need arose, the Edo Government would make law to protect the girl-child from underage marriage.