.ABUJA:
Nigeria's state governors have backed the execution of more than 300 prisoners on death row as a way of clearing space in the overcrowded jails of Africa's most populous country.
''It was agreed that those people who have been condemned should be executed accordingly,'' said Theodore Orji, the Governor of the south-eastern state of Abia, after a meeting of the 36 state governors in Abuja on Tuesday.
A total of 330 prisoners are on death row in a country where capital punishment remains on the statutes despite rarely being implemented.
The last official execution was in 2002 but Amnesty International, which campaigns against the death penalty, said it had found evidence of continuing secret executions in prisons.
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