Gambian
president had announced on August 19 that his government planned to execute all
the prisoners on death-row by the middle of September. Nine of the original 47
inmates on death row were shot dead by firing squad on August 28. All nine had
been convicted on murder charges.
But
on Saturday suspended its plan to execute two Nigerians, Micheal Ifunaya
and Stanley Agbaeze, and nationals of some other African
countries.
Nigerians
launched a drive to raise thousands of signatures for an online petition to
President Goodluck Jonathan to pressurize him to save the death-row inmates
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