The African Commission on Human and People's Rights is appealing to President Goodluck Jonathan to halt resumed executions. Four men have been hanged and a fifth is in imminent danger of being shot.
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana called Thursday's request "a landmark decision" following his petition to the Gambia-based commission on behalf of Nigeria's Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.
State governors signed five death warrants and prison authorities hanged four convicted murderers on June 24, ending a seven-year moratorium. They acted after Jonathan ordered governors to sign death warrants.
A fifth man was not executed because his sentence is to be shot by firing squad..
More than 1,000 people are on death row in Nigeria.
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