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• ADAMU V. STATE (2025)→

  Court

  Supreme Court of Nigeria

  Judgment date

  19 December 2025

  Summary of Adamu v. State, where the Supreme Court substituted a death conviction with 20 years for culpable homicide not punishable with death.

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