No fewer than 1,138 condemned prisoners are presently on the death row in the country, National Mirror investigations have showed.
National Mirror gathered that of this figure, 1,119 convicts are males while 19 are females as at April 30, this year.
Statistics obtained from the Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, also revealed that the 145 prisons in the country had a total capacity to accommodate 47, 284 prisoners, but the inmate population as at that date is 53,816.
A breakdown of this figure showed that the males have a total inmate population of 52,707 while the females are 1,109.
The statistics also indicated that the total number of Awaiting Trial Persons, ATPs, is 37,429 out of which 36,540 inmates are males and 889 females.
