{"id":1620,"date":"2025-12-12T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:35:42","slug":"supreme-court-reinstates-death-sentence-for-maryam-sanda-overrules-presidential-clemency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/2025\/12\/12\/supreme-court-reinstates-death-sentence-for-maryam-sanda-overrules-presidential-clemency\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence for Maryam Sanda, Overrules Presidential Clemency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence for Maryam Sanda, Overrules Presidential Clemency<\/p>\n<p>By News Editor<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Supreme Court has overturned President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to commute the death sentence of Maryam Sanda, who was convicted for the killing of her husband in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In a 4\u20131 ruling, the court held that the president exceeded his constitutional authority by granting clemency while Sanda\u2019s appeal was still pending. The judgment reinstates the original death penalty imposed by lower courts and states that executive pardon powers cannot interfere with ongoing judicial processes.<\/p>\n<p>This follows public controversy over the clemency list, which initially reduced Sanda\u2019s sentence to 12 years on compassionate grounds.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence for Maryam Sanda, Overrules Presidential Clemency By News Editor Nigeria\u2019s Supreme Court has overturned President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to commute the death sentence of Maryam Sanda, who was convicted for the killing of her husband in 2020. In a 4\u20131 ruling, the court held that the president exceeded his constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}