Lagos - Traumatised inmates heard screams and thuds from the gallows as Nigerian authorities on Monday hanged four convicted criminals in the West African nation's first known executions since 2006, a human rights lawyer said. A fifth man who was to be hanged at Benin City Prison was saved when the executioner had technical problems with the gallows, Chino Obiagwu of the national lawyers' rights group LEPAD told...
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