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What Court should do when the convict of murder is pregnant woman? (Law school bar/oral question)



What  Court  should  do  when the convict of  murder is pregnant  woman? 

Section  197  of the  Penal  Code  Cap  16  provide for  the punishment of murder that is, death sentence.  The proviso  to section  26(1)  of Penal Code exonerates the pregnant woman  who  is a  convict of murder from  death sentence. The Provision to the proviso to section  26(1)  in  the Penal  Code  provides that, where the Court  is satisfied that  the woman  convicted  of an offence  punishable with death is pregnant  such court shall  pass on her  a sentence  of imprisonment for  life instead of  a sentence  of death. 

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