3 Nigerian death row inmates secretly executed

Nigeria has secretly executed three convicted criminals in its first hangings since 2003. 

A human rights lawyer says the executions breach a seven-year moratorium on death penalty.
  
Chino Obiagwu of the Legal Defence and Assistance Project said the men who were on death row for 20 years were hanged in Benin Prison in southern Edo state on December 23.  

Mr. Obiagwu said his organisation wrote to the Edo state governor on December 21 warning that the men had outstanding appeals, making the hangings an unlawful act.

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