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The Chief Judge of Delta State, Marshal Umukoro, has urged state governors to sign the death warrant of over 1,600 inmates on death sentence in order to decongest the prisons.
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He said that recent statistics from the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, indicated that no fewer than 1,612 inmates are on death sentence in Nigeria prisons.
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The chief judge said that signing the death warrant would reduce prison congestion, and served as deterrent to others.