Sunday Jackson: How Supreme Court Dissent Revealed Flaws in Death Sentence - Thepodiummedia

Sunday Jackson: How Supreme Court Dissent Revealed Flaws in Death Sentence - Thepodiummedia

Sunday Jackson, an Adamawa farmer sentenced to death for defending himself against Buba Ardo Bawuro, a herdsman, may be closer to regaining his freedom. Emmanuel Ogebe, Jackson’s legal counsel, told FIJ on Tuesday that Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, the most senior judge on his appeal case, had discharged and acquitted him of the crimes he was convicted of. Ogebe explained that Justice Ogunwumiju ruled that it was a case of self-defence and called fo…

Supreme Court’s death sentence of Sunday Jackson in Adamawa: Is there anything Supreme about the judgment? - Uzoma Ahamefule

Apart from the explanation of bad leadership, Nigeria is a country that is very difficult to understand and to explain what happens around it correctly – economically, socially, politically and legally. And anyone who claims to understand it differently has a problem or is part of the problem. The Supreme Court judgment that upheld the death sentence of Sunday Jackson in Adamawa State was definitely a miscarriage of justice that should not be al…