In 2010, at the age of 17, Segun Olowookere and his accomplice, Morakinyo Sunday, were taken into custody.
They allegedly used a sword and an antiquated wooden rifle to attack the house of a police officer and another individual, but they only managed to escape with the poultry.
In 2014, Osun State High Court Justice Jide Falola found the two guilty of entering into the police officer’s home with force and taking his possessions, and he condemned them to death by hanging.
At the time, there was a national uproar in Nigeria because many people thought the penalty was excessively severe.
The two were then transferred to the death row ward of the infamous Kirikiri high security prison in Lagos state.
