LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Traumatized inmates heard screams and thuds from the gallows as Nigerian authorities 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'...
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