v. The offender is under the age of 18 years. vi. The offender is pregnant With regard to limitation of the death penalty to serious crimes, the term ‘serious crimes’ is devoid of any generally accepted definition and agreement. The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the phrase to mean International crimes with lethal or other extremely grave consequences. Death penalty cannot be imposed, if all the provisions of the ICCPR regarding due process have not been complied with. These include but not limited to, the presumption of innocence, informing the accused the nature of the offence committed by him, the accused right to counsel of his own choice, giving the accused reasonable time to which to prepare and present his defence, trial before an independent and impartial tribunal and the right to review by a higher tribunal. The Application before the Court actually contests the very existence of capital punishment in the Nigeria judicial system. However, he does not provide any strict and concrete evidence of violation of her rights outside the general critique she made on capital punishment. There is no evidence before this Court that the Defendant have signed and or ratified any International human rights instrument bending on her with regard to the abolition of the death penalty. Granted that International human rights instruments especially the ICCPR and the African Charter on Human and 16