The gallows for the man who stabbed wife to death but claims insanity.

The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has upheld the
death sentence handed a man, Edet Okon, who was
found guilty of the offence of murder by a Lagos State
High Court and was sentenced to death by hanging,
for stabbing his wife to death with a spoon at night. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by
Justice Joseph Ikyegh ordered that Okon be hanged
for killing his wife. The appellant had appealed the judgement, arguing
that the lower court erred in law when it dismissed his
plea of insanity. But in a unanimous judgement, the Court of Appeal
held that Appeal No. CA/L/553/10 lacked merit and
dismissed it. Justice Ikyegh, who delivered the leading judgement,
said Mrs. Okon’s blood was crying for vengeance and
her killer husband should   “reap what he has sown;
blood for blood.” Okon had claimed at the lower court that he was
insane at the time he stabbed his wife to death and
two witnesses called by the defence had given
evidence that there were cases of insanity in the
family of the appellant. However the court rejected the evidence adduced in
support of Okon’s claim, convicted him of murder and
ordered that he should die by hanging