Amnesty International has released its annual death penalty report, which shows the number of countries that use capital punishment is declining. But the report estimates that China executed several thousand people in 2009.
Arthur Judah Angel was sentenced to death in Nigeria in 1986 for a crime he says he didn't commit.
"Being on death row was like being in hell. You understand? In fact, it's very horrible. I don't have enough language – in English or my own – to explain it," said Angel.
He was 21 years old when he was arrested and spent the next 16 years in prison. Every night he was there, he says, he had nightmares.
He says inside the cell he wasn't even able to stretch his legs.
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