By Ismail Auwal
The Supreme Court will today hear an appeal from convicted husband killer, Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to death by hanging by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
In her appeal, the convict asks the Supreme Court to overturn the concurrent findings and convictions of the high court and the Court of Appeal.
She is alleging a wrongful conviction in the way her trial was conducted and the death sentence was imposed on her.
She wants the Supreme Court to resolve in her favour, the allegations of denial of fair hearing she levelled against the FCT high court.
Her legal team is billed to be led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Joseph Bodunde Daudu.
It could be recalled that Sanda was on January 27, 2020, convicted by the High Court for stabbing her husband, a real estate developer, to death at their Abuja residence in 2017.
Her death sentence by Justice Halilu Yusuf was on December 4, 2020, upheld by the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Stephen Ada.
