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BREAKING: Supreme Court ignores Tinubu’s pardon, upholds death sentence for Maryam Sanda
The Supreme Court has set aside the pardon earlier granted by President Bola Tinubu to Abuja housewife Maryam Sanda, who was convicted in 2020 for the killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, during a domestic dispute.
President Tinubu had reduced her sentence to 12 years in prison on compassionate grounds.
However, in a split judgment of four-to-one delivered on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the presidential pardon could not stand.
The court affirmed the death sentence earlier confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which upheld the decision of the FCT High Court sentencing Sanda to death by hanging.
The Apex Court resolved all the issues raised in the appeal she filed against her and dismissed the appeal for being without merit.
Justice Moore Adumein held in the lead judgment, which he personally delivered, that the prosecution proved the case beyond reasonable doubt as required, adding that the Court of Appeal was right to have affirmed the judgement of the trial court.
Justice Adumein held that it was wrong for the Executive to seek to exercise its power of pardon over a case of culpable homicide, in respect of which an appeal was pending.
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