When I saw clips of the massive killings in Benue State by the Fulani herdsmen, I quickly had a flashback on a case involving a farmer called Jackson Sunday and a herdsman in Anambra State in 2015. Jackson Sunday in a bid to defend himself against a herdsman killed the herdsman in order to escape from the herdsman attack but recently on March 7th, 2025 he was sentence to death by hanging on the ground that he would have fled instead of trying to defend himself. This is a wrong judgement and a redicule to our judicial system. This judgement have raised contention in the legal and none legal environment.
I don't no if there was more to that story that made the court to give him a capital punishment but however there is need for self defense especially when your live is as stake but however that doesn't mean you will not face the law because no matter the magnitude of which somebody attacks you and you retaliated to defend yourself and maybe in the cause of that leads to a bad outcome, the law will definitely take the cause because is forbidden to take another persons live but however if truly proven it was a self defense there could be some consideration during the judgement but definitely shouldn't result to death penalty.