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Despite
rising judgments on capital punishment, governors are reluctant to sign
warrants for condemned prisoners to be executed.
Nothing can be more
traumatizing than waiting for the hangman. When in 2013, the then Governor of
Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, signed the death warrants of some condemned
prisoners, sources revealed that the condemned prisoners screamed and wailed on
the way to the gallows.
