The Adamawa State High Court, on Thursday, sentenced 21-year-old Barnabas Peter (Bary) to death by hanging or lethal injection after admitting to killing one Jemimah Reuben — a 13-year-old girl in Yola.
He was convicted for homicide and armed robbery by Justice Ishaku Yakubu Haliru based on 17 exhibits tendered in court, including extra judicial confessional statements made available in evidence, as well as the testimonies of 8 witnesses assembled by the prosecution.