LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is preparing to execute a man who was dragged to the gallows and watched four fellow death-row inmates being hanged earlier this week, Amnesty International and Nigerian human rights lawyers said Wednesday. Thankgod Ebhos won a brief respite because his sentence by a military tribunal called for him to be shot by a firing squad. "Cruel and inhumane do not even begin to describe the nightmare situation facing this man," said Lucy Freeman, deputy Africa director of London-based Amnesty International. She said it indicates "the spectacularly brutal nature of Nigeria's sudden return to state-sponsored killing." Nigeria has not carried out the death sentence since...
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