Nigeria, Oct. 14 -- A criminal justice-focused civil society group, Hope Behind Bars Africa (HBBA), in partnership with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has called for urgent gender-sensitive reforms and a moratorium on the death penalty in Nigeria, following the release of a study exposing systemic injustices faced by women on death row.

The NHRC disclosed this in a press statement on Monday.

The study, titled 'Gender and the Death Penalty in Nigeria,' was unveiled at a validation meeting in Abuja on Monday, supported by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the French Development Agency (AFD).

It sheds light on the unique and often overlooked challenges confronting women sentenced to death under Nigeria's stat...